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Insightful Commentary from and on the Canadian Film World

Never Happened (Review)

February 28, 2017February 25, 2017ReviewMark Slutsky, Never Happened

Canadian director Mark Slutsky makes a lot happen in his eight minute short Never Happened. A man and his pregnant wife say goodbye for the weekend as he’s off on a business trip with a

20th Century Women (Review)

February 21, 2017February 18, 2017Review20th Century Women, Annette Bening, Mike Mills

Writer-director Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women is about a single mother and her rapidly growing son who live in a time when America’s growth felt physical, like you could touch it. In 1979, in California,

Hacksaw Ridge (Review)

February 14, 2017February 13, 2017ReviewDesmond Dos, Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge boasts great acting from its lead, smart, tense battle staging, and better than average (for its genre) cinematography — all of which it nearly squanders thanks to its glamorization of war. There are

Cutaway (Review)

February 7, 2017February 7, 2017ReviewCutaway, Kazik Radwasnki

I’ll be honest, as soon as I understood how this film was going to work I felt like backing out of watching it. Cutaway, a Canadian film by Kazik Radwanski, depicts only the hands of

Moonlight (VIFF) Review

January 31, 2017January 29, 2017ReviewBarry Jenkins, Moonlight

Barry Jenkins, Moonlight‘s writer-director, forces. He forces you to reckon with a lot of different images in the film. He creates a torrent of emotion without any audible dialogue. I can’t think of a better

Toni Erdmann (VIFF Review)

January 24, 2017January 21, 2017ReviewBucharest, Ines Conradi, Maren Ades, Toni Erdmann

Writer-director Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann operates based on a sitcom premise that then develops to become a story about existentialism. A hard-working businesswoman, Ines Conradi (Sandra Hüller) has no time for her father Winfried Conradi

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