![]() ![]() Davis takes her troubled teenage son ( Judah Lewis) under his wing to teach him about the effective use of the word “fuck” and introduce him to his new hobby: breaking things.ĭavis’ demolition fixation is such an obvious metaphor (sometimes you have to take things apart before you can put them back together!) that it should be insulting, but it’s not. After a halted beginning, Davis and Karen become friends and slip into an odd but heartwarming surrogate family dynamic. Karen ( Naomi Watts), the company’s equally broken and isolated customer service rep, is touched and concerned by the letters, and reaches out to him. ![]() At his wife’s wake, he begins to write a series of increasingly confessional letters to the vending company, complaining about the candy and, in the interest of being thorough, analyzing the details of his life. While his father-in-law and boss ( Chris Cooper) falls apart at the hospital, Davis begins to fixate on the waiting room’s faulty vending machine and the bag of peanut M&Ms it failed to deliver him. were part of smaller programs, far from the red carpet galas he now lands routinely. Although his latest film Demolition features a star-studded, decorated cast and received the full gala treatment for its world premiere at TIFF - it was the festival’s opening night film - it often feels like a return to Vallée’s art house roots.ĭavis Mitchell ( Jake Gyllenhaal) is a New York investment banker coasting through an easy and charmed life until his wife Julia dies in a car accident. His work often screened - and received deserved praise - at many of the same festivals, and he was always a big deal in Quebec’s uniquely self-contained star system, but films like Café de Flore and C.R.A.Z.Y. This review was originally published back in September 2015 as part of our coverage for the Toronto International Film Festival 2015.īefore Quebecois director Jean-Marc Vallée became an A-list festival and awards circuit fixture thanks to serious but palatable Oscar bait like Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, he was a beloved underground filmmaker who made lyrical and wildly offbeat paeans to love and family. ![]()
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