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TIFF Diaries, Episode 5: Genius Is Gross, Actually
TIFF Diaries, Episode 5: Genius Is Gross, Actually
<p>Our fifth film at Toronto took one of literature's most legendary writers and completely stripped away the reverence, and we are so here for it. We talk about Johnny Flynn playing Dostoevsky as a gambling, drunken disaster of a man, why Aimee Lou Wood quietly steals the entire film as the wife holding everything together, and how a random needle drop of Take On Me somehow becomes the perfect summary of this film's entire attitude.</p>