toronto film festival: day 6

only one movie today. it was a day of interviews and more interveiws and then some more... (though i did love chatting with jude law today...)

emilio estevez (yes that emilio estevez) has probably crafted a brand new career with the ambitious release of his movie bobby.

'bobby' retells the day that the inspirational president nominee was horribly shot dead during the night of his win at the california primaries. but rather than renacting the days events, the impending assasination provides a framework for his more than 20 fictitious characters in the film (from sir anthony hopkins to demi moore to sharon stone to lawrence fishburne and even lindsay lohan). their story delves into issues of race, war, youth, lust and the optomism that was quickly taken away that fateful evening.

it's a tall order and to an extent the film really works. the causes that bobby fought for mean even more in our current climate, but the film with it's massive list of plotlines and distracting star power creates a sense of hard sell by the end of the film. a subtler ending would have been all the more powerful. still, this is a feat for director estevez and i applaud him for his obvious talent.