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TIFF Diaries, Episode 5: Genius Is Gross, Actually

TIFF Diaries, Episode 5: Genius Is Gross, Actually2 days ago32 min

<p>Our fifth film at Toronto took one of literature&#39;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&#39;s entire attitude.</p>