Toronto Film Festival Dailies

MOUTHPIECE

Written and Directed by Patricia Rozema

Co-Written by Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken

Starring Norah Sadava, Amy Nostbakken and Maev Beaty

2018 TIFF | SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS | WORLD PREMIERE 

MOUTHPIECE is a powerful, amusing and highly original look into the conflicted psyche of Cassandra Haywood a fiercely independent millennial woman. Cass is a single writer who lives by her own rules. She’s also a bit of a disaster. Following the sudden death of her mother, Elaine (Maev Beaty) she finds herself in crisis, unable to think straight, with a debate raging inside her head. This movie makes that invisible conflict visible: Cassandra (Amy Nostbakken & Norah Sadava) battles it out while figuring out what to say at her mother’s funeral. What unfolds is a wild careening through grief, anger, hypocrisy, sex and self-sabotage in an exploration of the messy contemporary lives of women from both generations. Raucous jokes, musical numbers and heart breaking memories add up to a deeply moving and political portrait of a mother and a daughter as seen through the eyes of one conflicted young woman.

2018 / 91 minutes / English / Canada / Acquisition Title

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Patricia Rozema was born in Kingston, Ontario. Her first feature film, I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing(87), won the Prix de la Jeunesse at Cannes. Her other features include When the Night is Falling (95) and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (08), and the Festival selections Mansfield Park (99) and Into the Forest (15). MOUTHPIECE (18) is her latest film.