Classic, low budget, late night film festival fare.
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Rumours (2024)
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Either I’m too uneducated in contemporary western politics to understand the nuances of this not absurdist enough satire or it’s a stylish mess.
Continue readingMy Old Ass (2024)
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I needed to see a film like this that would fill up my cup after a MIFF that seems heavy on melancholy.
Continue readingMatt and Mara (2024)
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Matt Johnson is like Mark Duplass’s goofy cousin. This gently diverting, stream of consciousness, white middle class angst movie reminded me a bit of films like Lynn Shelton’s Hump Day (2009) or an early Kelly Reichardt film but without the social weight.
Continue readingI Used to be Funny (2023)
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This Canadian feature by Ally Pankiw is funny, moving, and a great vehicle for Rachel Sennott’s particular style of flinty, self deprecating comedy.
Continue readingThe Nature of Love (Simple Comme Sylvain)(2023)
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I kept thinking this romcom was ‘so French’ as it eschewed all the typical tropes in favour of a madcap, wry cynicism about love. But of course, it’s French-Canadian. Sorry!
Continue readingBlackBerry (2023)
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I lived through the rise and fall of BlackBerry but, not being an early adopter, it barely touched my life.
Continue readingCrimes of the Future (2022)
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I think I knew this was going to be overblown Cronenberg fan boy drivel but Kristen Stewart so I pushed on through to a 9.45pm fourth film of the day sold out screening. I was lulled occasionally by KStew and the always mesmerising Léa Seydoux and stuck it through to its trite ending.
Continue readingKuessipan (2019)
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Kuessipan sneaks up on you. For awhile it feels like a familiar story of race and class and wanting freedom from the confines of family and community as you teeter on the precipice of adulthood.
Continue readingPrayer for a Lost Mitten (Prière pour une Mitaine Perdue) (2020)
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I’m not sure what I was expecting with this low-key Canadian documentary by Jean-François Lesage that uses the lost and found office at the Montreal metro as a jumping off point for a meditation on loss. From the first bleak and beautiful scene of snow falling against a night sky as a clarinet mournfully plays, you know this is going to be about more than a lost mitten.
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