SPOILERS JOKER Director QA, TIFF 2019

Shocking in its originality and intensity, Joker is a game changer for socalled comic book movies. Showcasing a fully immersed performance from Joaquin Phoenix and a new vision of world building, Todd Phillips latest is an unsettling, exciting portrait of the villain we thought we knew. Phillips and Scott Silver s original screenplay isn t an adaptation of any previous part of the DC Comics canon, though its reference points will reward fans. The setting is 1981 Gotham City, inspired by New York of the