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Craig’s Toronto FilmFest News & Reviews
September 11, 2004
INNOCENCE ended at the Paramount 10 minutes before my next film was scheduled to start at the Varsity. One maniacal sprint over, up, and across later, I arrived as the opening credits unspoiled for THREE OF HEARTS: A POSTMODERN FAMILY a documentary by Susan Kaplan about a New York gay couple who decided to add a woman to their relationship. I think that’s all the “plot” you need to know.
It took 8 years to film, and it’s fascinating, unbelievably revealing, hilarious, heartbreaking, and entirely engaging. HEARTS got a standing ovation before we the audience knew the subjects had come to the festival for the Q&A, and then, well, the Q&A was something else: that was emotional. In a dozen years at the festival I’ve never been so affected.
