At TIFF: World premiere of Lynn Shelton's latest

By The Seattle Times / Moira Macdonald

13-09-2011

 

Screenings for me have been catch-as-catch-can for Saturday and today, due to having so many interviews set.

I'm choosing movies based on what fits into holes in my schedule, rather than arranging my schedule around the movies. This doesn't always work out ("Elles," a French film I saw yesterday with Juliette Binoche, was disappointingly dull, despite plenty of sex scenes), but sometimes it does: "Headhunters," a Norwegian thriller based on the best selling novel by Jo Nesbo, was snappy, smart, and thoroughly bloody. The story of a corporate headhunter who moonlights as an art thief until a heist goes terribly wrong (an irresistible premise, no?), it's already been acquired by Magnolia and should be in U.S. theaters in 2012.