Venice Golden Lion Winner 'From Afar' Stuns in Toronto

Sunday’s premiere in Toronto screening of "Desde Allá" – the winner Saturday night of the Venice Film Festival’s coveted Golden Lion – revealed to a capacity audience a movie that's a decidedly mixed blessing: Yes, it lingers on the palate like a four-star Michelin meal. But it makes you realize you’ve been spending most of your movie-going life at McDonald’s. The first Venezuelan film to win Venice and the debut feature of director Lorenza Vigas, it has at its center an unmarried, middle-aged maker of dentures, Armando (Arturo Castro), who is in the habit of hiring young men from the streets of Caracas for his very particular brand of erotic satisfaction (no...

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