I saw the restored print at the Toronto Film Festival and I was floored. This movie drew me right in and gave me a complete emotional workout, a very rare thing.
It deserves comparison to my favorite films of the period, such as "Mean Streets" and "Midnight Cowboy". It is bursting with passion and integrity and a need to communicate with it's audience. Great characters, intimately drawn.
I've seen a lot of Canadian films, and sadly, this one stands head and shoulders above every other English language film we've made in this country. I'm not talking about French Canadian films of which there is no shortage of fine examples.
What about it? Can anyone come up with a better English language Canadian film?
It deserves comparison to my favorite films of the period, such as "Mean Streets" and "Midnight Cowboy". It is bursting with passion and integrity and a need to communicate with it's audience. Great characters, intimately drawn.
I've seen a lot of Canadian films, and sadly, this one stands head and shoulders above every other English language film we've made in this country. I'm not talking about French Canadian films of which there is no shortage of fine examples.
What about it? Can anyone come up with a better English language Canadian film?