Tag: Cinema of Canada
Bonjour Tristesse | Review
Lifestyles of the Rich, Conflicted & Coddled: Dull Vacation in the South of France for Debut
Ah, summer in the south of France. The cerulean...
The Shrouds | Review
Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in Sluggish Mystery
The burial business serves as the battle ground for a complicated conundrum in David...
Honey Bunch | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Love Like This Before: Sims-Fewer & Mancinelli Examine the Ethics of Love
Canadian filmmaking duo Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli follow up their disturbing 2020...
Interview: Philippe Lesage – Comme le feu (Who By Fire)
The adults in the room may be battling for dominance, but in the end, it’s the one who considers the long-term consequences and deeper...
Who by Fire (Comme le feu) | Review
Into the Woods: Lesage Explores Wounded Masculinities
In Vincent Sherman’s 1943 Bette Davis-led melodrama Old Acquaintance, the complex relationship between a pair of female frenemies...
Interview: Matthew Rankin – Universal Language (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Imagine Tim Hortons' signage were comically flipped from right to left, or the face on Canada’s banknote replaced with the haunting image of Louis...
Interview: Producer Sylvain Corbeil – Universal Language (2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival)
Marking his second decade as a film producer, I had the opportunity to sit down with Montreal-based Sylvain Corbeil at the 2024 Marrakech International...
Cold Feet: Philippe Falardeau Drives Away with ‘Mille secrets mille dangers’
There was a brief delay for the start of the production (originally they were circling a 2023 start), but finally French-Canadian filmmaker Philippe Falardeau...
Down in the Dumps: Anne Émond Throws Patrick Hivon & Piper Perabo Together in ‘Adam’
French-Canadian filmmaker Anne Émond has begun production into her first foray into English-language cinema (we imagine that this will be a bilingual film) with...
First Time for Everything: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles Begins Production on ‘Petite rose’
After sliding back into the docu realm, French Canadian filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles has returned to fiction with Petite rose (formerly titled Fleur bleue)...
Matt and Mara | Review
Friends Forever: Radwanski Reteams With Deragh Campbell For Another Captivating Character Study In Close-Up
The tension between a friendship that’s too close for comfort and...
Teaser for Chloé Robichaud’s “Deux femmes en or”
We've got the first (really early) look at Chloé Robichaud's fourth feature film -- which is set to drop next summer (domestic Quebec release)...
Interview: Monia Chokri & Magalie Lépine Blondeau – The Nature of Love
In a creative output that saw her add a harvest of three feature films in the last five years, after 2019's A Brother's Love...
The Nature of Love | Review
Heart in the Right Place: Chokri Lets the Body & the Camera Do the Talking in Rom Dramedy
French Canadian filmmaker Monia Chokri adds another...
Interview: Ariane Louis-Seize – Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
After being feted on the Lido (winner of the Director's Award in the Giornate degli Autori section - we were there) and being showcased...
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Review
Sentimental Succubus: Louis-Seize Finds Love is All Consuming in Vampire Rom-Com
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry” read the tagline for the quintessential...
2023 TIFF: Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils to World Preem in Toronto
Shot in February-March range this year, Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils will have quickly jettisoned into a release in 2023 with Toronto Intl. Film Festival...
Shepherd’s High: Sophie Deraspe Currently Filming “Berger” with Félix-Antoine Duval
French Canadian filmmaker Sophie Deraspe is currently taking big gulps of the French Alps for her sixth feature film currently in production. Saint-Narcisse thesp...
Interview: Charlotte Le Bon – Falcon Lake
Selected for the Directors' Fortnight in 2022, Charlotte Le Bon's assured directorial debut was among the highlights of the section and since its launch...
Falcon Lake | Review
Baptism by Water: Unrequited Longing & Fear Found in Le Bon's Simmering Debut
In a perfect swirl of the uninitiated and inhibition, in her directorial...
BlackBerry | Review
Hold the Phone: Johnson Delivers the Ballad of the BlackBerry
Exposing the accidental alchemy which generated the titular BlackBerry, the world’s first Smartphone (and as...
Infinity Pool | Review
The Dualists: Cronenberg Doubles Down on Class Cliches
“Sorrow is concealed in gilded places, and there’s no escaping it,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in his...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #40. Untitled Philippe Lesage Project
The highest-ranked Canadian filmmaker on this year's list moved into production on his fourth feature film back in August of last year. After 2015's...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #56. Meryam Joobeur’s Motherhood
Motherhood
Tunisian Canadian filmmaker Meryam Joobeur's fourth short film Brotherhood put her on the map (a Sundance-Clermont selection and Oscar-nominated short) and when the industry...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #69. Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool
NEON break in the new year with a title that we've been discussing on and off for some time now. Brandon Cronenberg's first...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #78. Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara
Matt and Mara
A project that was shot a little bit under the radar, Torontonian Kazik Radwanski moved into production on his fourth feature this...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #104. Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry
BlackBerry
The Dirties (2013) and Operation Avalanche (2016) filmmaker Matt Johnson makes his long awaited return to features with this blast to the past. Featuring...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #139. Caitlin Cronenberg’s Humane
Humane
We'll begin 2023 will a new Cronenberg film, and we'll likely conclude the year with another Cronenberg film and neither items are signed David....
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #165. Anne Émond’s La meute
La meute
After exploring body issues in the teenage years with 2019's Jeune Juliette, Anne Émond's once again moves towards an entire new genre with...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #166. Sophie Dupuis’ Drag
Drag
Quebecois filmmaker Sophie Dupuis reteams with her muse Théodore Pellerin for her third feature film -- a drag queen drama set in the Montreal...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #199. Pascal Plante’s Les chambres rouges
Les chambres rouges
For his third feature film, Canadian filmmaker Pascal Plante moves into the dark corners of the interwebs and with Les chambres rouges...
Bloodsuckers: Sara Montpetit Toplines Ariane Louis-Seize’s “Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant”
Only two projects into her already solid filmography, Maria Chapdelaine and Falcon Lake star Sara Montpetit will sink her teeth into Ariane Louis-Seize's Vampire...
Erasure: Caitlin Cronenberg Gets Ready to Populate “Humane”
While we eagerly await her brother Brandon's release of Infinity Pool (I'd be shocked if this does not premiere in Park City next January),...
Lingering Summer: Yellow Veil Pictures Swims Over to Charlotte Le Bon’s “Falcon Lake”
The distrib behind Gaspar Noé's Lux Æterna, the re-issue of Fabrice Du Welz's Calvaire and upcoming Ashkal by Youssef Chebbi have landed the breakout...
An Affair to Remember: Magalie Lépine Blondeau Toplines Monia Chokri’s “Simple Comme Sylvain”
Coming off the still-fresh release of her sophomore film in Babysitter (it was a Sundance world preem albeit virtual edition), production has already begun...
Oscars: Canada Selects Jason Loftus’ Docu-Animated Hybrid “Eternal Spring” as Best Intl. Feature Hopeful
In a move that reflects the nation's diverse, multi-language backdrop, Canada won't be backing the usual French-language drama but instead has favored the hybrid...
Philippe Falardeau Gets Pre-Wedding Jitters for “Mille secrets mille dangers”
After moving into television with the Berlinale preemed "Le temps des framboises," the Quebecois filmmaker who moonlights between English and French language productions will...
Jesse Noah Klein, Meryam Joobeur, Heather Young & Matthew Rankin Among Telefilm Canada Coin Recipients
Telefilm Canada announces has committed almost 13 million dollars to 21 feature-length films (English market). Almost 300 projects were submitted. At the top of...
A Bond That Breaks: Meryam Joobeur’s “Motherhood” Readying For Festival Launch in ’23
Pretty much a done deal for a major film festival launch in 2023 and sitting high up on our most anticipated list of directorial...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #74. Blake Williams, Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik’s A Woman Escapes
A Woman Escapes
Cinema birthed a new Antoine Doinel and her name is...Audrey Benac. Voyage to the center of Audrey via actress Deragh Campbell includes...
Video Interview: Kazik Radwanski – Anne at 13,000 ft
Making friends can be easy...unless you happen to be the central character in Radwanskian cinema. In Toronto-based filmmaker Kazik Radwanski's third feature film, we...
Anne at 13,000 Ft. | Review
Cyclo Maladroit: Social Safety Nets Deployed in Radwanski’s Latest
A Canadian agit dramaturgist whose portraits can be described as deeply humanist, in his third feature...
Video Interview: Pascal Plante – Nadia, Butterfly | Cannes 2020 Label
Receiving that phone call that you've been accepted into the Cannes Film Festival surely never gets old but what if your film was selected...
Video Interview: Jeanne Leblanc – Our Own (Les nôtres)
Insular and close-knit communities are great at keeping unwanted problems (or people) at bay, but want happens when social woes mushroom from within? Passive...
The Retreat [Video Review]
The Hateful Straights: Mills Finds Bigots in the Backwoods in Exploitation Effort
One of the many silver linings of genre filmmaking is the powerful...
Violation [Video Review]
Crime & Punishment: Sims-Fewer & Mancinelli Serve a Cold Dish
Neither redemption nor revenge are at the complete behest of the individual, at least not...
Slaxx [Video Review]
You Fit Me Better Than My Favorite Sweater: Kephart Gets Hemmed in by Killer Jeans
Who doesn’t like a pair of perfectly fitted blue jeans?...
Video Interview: Martin Edralin (Islands) – 2021 SXSW Film Festival
Filmmaker Martin Edralin’s tender debut feature Islands introduces us to Joshua (Rogelio Balagtas): a taciturn, 49-year-old Filipino immigrant who still lives with his elderly...
Come True [Video Review]
The Science of Sleep: Burns Roars into Your REM Cycle with Broody Thriller
“To sleep, perchance to scream” might be a takeaway impression from Come...
My Salinger Year | Review
Raise High the Roofbeams, Cinema: Falardeau’s Warm Homage Clangs Carpe Diem
“I think that one of these days…you’re going to find out where you want...
