TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival today announced that Alan Rickman’s A Little Chaos will close the 2014 Festival. Screening at Roy Thomson Hall on September 13, the film stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci.
“It is a great privilege for A Little Chaos to have its world premiere in Toronto and for it to be given the Festival's closing night Gala, but it is also a very personal pleasure,” said Rickman. “I have filmed in the city, visited often, and some of my closest friends live there. It will be like coming home.”
“A Little Chaos is the perfect closing night film – it transports audiences to another time, another place, full of beauty, complexity, rivalry, politics and romance,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival. “Alan Rickman’s film will wind audiences up just as our Festival is winding down.”
In this sumptuous historical drama Sabine De Barra (Winslet) — a landscaper with a taste for the unconventional — is invited to design one of the fountains at The Palace of Versailles. As she battles with the weather, the perilous rivalries at the court of Louis XIV and her own private demons, she finds herself drawn inescapably closer to the formality and enigma of the architect who hired her.
The Toronto International Film Festival runs September 4-14, 2014.
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The Toronto International Film Festival is generously supported by Lead Sponsor Bell, Major Sponsors RBC, L'Oréal Paris and Visa, and Major Supporters the Government of Ontario, Telefilm Canada and the City of Toronto.
The Gala Presentation Programme is sponsored by AMC.
The Closing Night Gala is made possible through the generous sponsorship of National Bank.
