The opening of this year's Toronto International Film Festival was all about the music .....as rock icons U2 premiered their documentary 'From the Sky Down'.<br/> The film, made by director Davis Guggenheim, charts the struggles the Irish super-group had while making their 1991 album 'Achtung Baby"<br/> It is the first documentary to open the festival in its 36-year history.<br/> SOUNDBITE, Bono, U2 lead singer, saying (English):<br/> "I think it shows that the festival still isn't ready to be all commercial, that they would put on this night a documentary film about an obscure album from a hopefully not so obscure band."<br/> Achtung Baby was seen as a daring reinvention of the band after the huge success of 'The Joshua Tree' and the somewhat less well-received 'Rattle and Hum'.<br/> SOUNDBITE, Bono, U2 lead singer, saying (English):<br/> "I'm amazed at what Davis has been able to gather from his forensic approach to our work. But I don't think really it's a film about our band in as much as it's a film about the creative process. If you're interested in that, you're going to be interested in this film I think, but I find it excruciating."<br/> This film will be one of 268 features screened at the festival throughout 11 days.<br/> Attendees will watch a group of films that might turn into Oscar contenders following on the footsteps of "The King's Speech," which won the festival's top prize last year.<br/> Edward Baran, Reuters
