"Opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival is always a scene, but the particulars of your scene? It's a matter of which big world premiere you're hitting up first. While the festival's official opening night gala was Colin Hanks' loving and insightful documentary "John Candy: I Like Me," the festival's many sections have their own openers, like the forward-thinking Discovery section. This year, opening night for the Disco crowd was all about John Early's feature directorial debut, "Maddie's Secret.""
"On hand for the appropriately semi-secret film's big premiere at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Early and his cast and crew (including Kate Berlant, Conner O'Malley, and Vanessa Bayer), plus pals like Cole Escola and Wallace Shawn, and just about every name in alt-comedy you can think of. A raucous assortment of comedy freaks and theater nerds? Pretty perfect for what Early throws down in his film,"
Opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival featured multiple premieres and section-specific openers, with the Discovery section opening for the year featuring John Early's feature directorial debut, Maddie's Secret. The premiere at the Royal Alexandra Theatre drew a lively crowd of alt-comedy figures and theater personalities, including many of Early's collaborators and friends. Maddie's Secret centers on Maddie, a budding food influencer whose fraught relationship with the camera and culinary delights plays out in an inventive blend of Sirkian melodrama and TV-movie tropes. Early's performance as Maddie and his gimlet-eyed tone combine humor and genuine emotion, marking a striking debut.
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