The Toronto International Film Festival opened with the premiere of Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” and a party at Hooters for “Dicks: The Musical.”
Hence what will go down as one of the most inventive opening-night doubleheaders in TIFF history.
The lyrical, visually arresting film is told through the eyes of a young boy, Mahito, who has lost his mother to war and is uprooted from Tokyo to the countryside, where he finds himself journeying through an abandoned tower and into a mystical world of heroic grandmothers, a troll-ish man in a blue heron suit and flocks of terrifying birds, from legions of pelicans to hordes of giant pitchfork-carrying parakeets that like to turn humans into stew.
And then the even luckier among us went straight from that experience to the “Dicks: The Musical” premiere party at Hooters, a downtown Toronto institution, where waitresses in tight white T-shirts and orange short shorts were serving margaritas and a trio of performers vogued in sequined thong leotards and silver knee-high boots.The contrast was just so perfectly emblematic of this sprawling festival, which boasts 272 films from 74 countries.
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