Photo Coverage: On the TIFF Red Carpet for WELCOME TO ME
By: Walter McBride Sep. 15, 2014
The Toronto International Film Festival just concluded yesterday, September 14, 2014. A total of 393 films were shown, including 143 world premieres. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the red carpet arrivals for WELCOME TO ME.
In Welcome to Me, director Shira Piven explores what happens when a commonly held fantasy comes true for a complicated person, and a story of good luck evolves into a compelling and darkly humorous drama.
Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig) suffers from borderline personality disorder, and though she manages it - and the accompanying medications and therapeutic care - fairly well, past tumult has left a broken marriage and strained familial relationships in its wake. She finds grounding in her daily routine, which includes memorizing every episode of Oprahand carefully monitoring her wardrobe and protein-laden diet. One can't help but get the sense that Alice is straining to embrace bigger things, and when her numbers come up in the state lottery, suddenly she gets focused... on eighty million dollars' worth of possibilities.
In quick succession, Alice buys a stretch of hours at a local television company, eschews her medication and therapy, moves into a casino, and creates her own talk show about - what else? - herself. As her show gains an audience (despite some off-the-wall cooking and medical demonstrations), Alice realizes that viewers identify with her re-enactments of past hurts and social slights. What she doesn't recognize is that her own hunger for fame may just reflect a deeper need to be heard.
The Toronto International Film Festival has become the launching pad for the best of international, Hollywood and Canadian cinema, and is recognized as the most important film festival after Cannes. TIFF is dedicated to presenting the best of international and Canadian cinema to film lovers. What began as a ten-day film festival has grown to embrace programming 365 days a year. TIFF offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support and the chance to meet filmmakers from Canada and around the world. In September 2010, the opening of our new home, TIFF Bell Lightbox, enabled TIFF to expand to truly become a creative, community and global leader, and one of the world's premiere organizations in the discovery and understanding of film.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Director Shira Piven
Director Shira Piven
director Shira Piven and Kristen Wiig
Shira Piven, Linda Cardellini, Kristen Wiig
Will Ferrell with his fans
Kristen Wiig with her fans
Kristen Wiig with her fans
Kristen Wiig with her fans
Kristen Wiig with her fans
Kristen Wiig with her fans
Kristen Wiig with her fans
Kristen Wiig with her fans
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