Audiences Cheer ‘Jo Jo Rabbit’ But Some Aren’t Laughing, Amazon Hits The Fest Big Time, And More – Toronto
, and though it will certainly have its naysayers due to a controversial approach to its subject matter — it features a comical Adolf Hitler character, among other things — the movie was rapturously received with a raucous standing ovation by the first night crowd who seemed to eat it up. Early critic reviews are more divided on Rotten Tomatoes, split just about down the middle.
The crowd reaction, however, justifies distributor Fox Searchlight and Disney’s decision to debut it at TIFF in front of a more urban/cosmopolitan city audience, where they thought it would be an audience-pleaser , and that strategy certainly seemed to work at the Princess of Wales theater last night, followed by a party at Arcane which was so crowded a few guests looked exhausted just trying to navigate from one side of the room to the other.
Waititi feels ignorance and arrogance must be attacked in ways that will grab attention, and that is what he told the sold-out audience after the applause died down for the Q&A. “I think it is important to keep telling these stories again and again,” he said. “We have to keep remembering and keep finding new and inventive ways of telling the same story, and keep teaching ourselves and our children lessons on how to move forward and unified with love into the future.
Let the debate begin, but in a world where Naziism and its beliefs are creeping back into the public spotlight, you cannot haveJohansson had to do the neat trick of maneuvering between competing premieres .
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