THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN Cinema Intro + Q&A | TIFF 2021

The team behind THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN in conversation with TIFF following its premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. An eccentric artist (Benedict Cumberbatch) introduces Victorian London to the delights of cats, in Will Sharpe’s enlightening biopic. The 46th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 9 to 18, 2021. For more, visit . From Ancient Egypt to TikTok, cats have accompanied humans on life’s journey. But who made the creatures cute? THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN tells the story of the Victorian-era artist whose widely published drawings of anthropomorphized cats transformed them from mysterious to irresistible. In a dazzling, career-best performance, Benedict Cumberbatch plays one of Britain’s most influential eccentrics as a flurry of wild ideas and prodigious artistic output. Louis Wain (Cumberbatch, also at the Festival in THE POWER OF THE DOG) brims with creativity, even as his life in the 1880s oscillates between th