“Daughter of the Sun” combines biblical references, “2001 A Space Odyssey”, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Bonny and Clyde” making this one the best Canadian movies in modern times. Ryan Ward as writer, director and actor has quite an accomplishment on the screen. Please don’t hold it against the film that it is Canadian and shot entirely in the Province of Manitoba. Please don’t relegate it to Indie heaven!
Sonny (Ryan Ward) suffers or could it be blessed by Tourette Syndrome. He travels throughout Manitoba with his twelve-year-old daughter Hildie (Nyah Perkins) working at manual labour jobs and living in cheap motels. As Hildie remarks her father says that they do not belong in any one place and it is us versus them. Don’t get suckered in by the obvious!
And Hildie and Sonny are being tailed and observed. But by whom and why?
In yet another small town they meet several people that are like them in the sense they have a mental or physical handicap. Finally they are “fitting in” until they are ready to leave town yet again and their peaceful world becomes a cruel one and a innocent girl with Down’s Syndrome becomes “The Unspoken One”. So what does that make Sonny!
Solid casting down the line but a soulful performance by Ryan Ward is most impressive.
A film in the Canadian Film Fest showing in Toronto on 22March2024.
You can see the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKshOjHaW40&t=4s
Check out their website https://www.canfilmfest.ca/daughter-of-the-sun
P.S. and Hint: How did the dog, cat, Hildie and Glover not die? Like Hansel and Gretel note the breadcrumbs!
PPS: No that is not Keanu Reeves or Mel Gibson. Is Aurora Judas?
RKS 2024 Film Rating 96/100.
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