Congrats to the award winners at TIFF, including American Fiction which won the People’s Choice Award at this year’s festival. I reviewed the film here and am happy for Cord Jefferson taking this prize. Very interesting to see where this film will go. The Toronto International Film Festival® ― which concluded last evening with the
American Fiction, the adaptation of Percival Everett’s Erasure, is a prickly thing. A grounded satire that both funny and emotional, the movie tackles a variety of subjects like race, identity, and the writing/entertainment industries. Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonious Ellison, an author and professor, whose disregard for his student sensitivities gets him put on sabbatical. Taking