“Hailey Rose”, a Canadian feature film, is an intriguing mess of emotions, bearing in mind “mess” does not always signify negativity. Hailey (Em Haine) and Rose (Caitlynne Medrek) are Nova Scotian sisters. Hailey is queer living in Calgary and in rural Nova Scotia queer is on par with an exotic animal. Rose is quirky. TheirContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Hailey Rose”: A Mess of Quirkiness, Hate, Selfishness, Deception and Forgiveness: Canadian Film Fest”
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RKS 2024 Film: “Place of Bones”: The Good, Bad, Ugly and a Taste for the Finer Things in Life: Canadian Film Fest
I can’t think of any Canadian westerns I have encountered so I snapped up the opportunity to watch “Place of Bones” set in 1876 Canada. In many respects it is a traditional 1950’s and 1960’s western. Good god-fearing sodbusters Pandora Meadow (Heather Graham) and her daughter Hester (Brielle Robillard) living a marginal existence in aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Place of Bones”: The Good, Bad, Ugly and a Taste for the Finer Things in Life: Canadian Film Fest”
RKS 2024 Film: “Doubles”: Canadian Film Fest
Doubles are a Trinidadian street food. Curried chickpeas (channa) between two pieces of fried flatbread in tamarind and coriander sauce with mango chutney, kuchela and cucumbers. Dhani (Sanjiv Boodhu) who is of Indian descent and his mother run a small roadside stand selling doubles in Trinidad. It is a marginal existence worsened by a robberyContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Doubles”: Canadian Film Fest”
RKS 2024 Film: “One Life”: Shuffles Along but Finishes with a Sprint
“One Life” is the story of dedicated volunteers in 1938 Prague attempting to whisk children (mostly Jewish) to safety in Britain by train with Nicholas “Nicky” Winton pressuring the British bureaucracy to issue exit visas to the children. Of course, being bureaucrats, they insisted 50 £ be posted as return money to return the childrenContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “One Life”: Shuffles Along but Finishes with a Sprint”
RKS 2024 Film: “Our Grandmother-The Inlet”
This Canadian short falls into the “angry Indigenous genre” of documentaries. The treatment of Canadian Indigenous nations justifies the anger which is so intense in this short documentary with the distressed Kayah George, a young Indigenous woman that wants to burn “this fucking city down”. Could that be Vancouver? George, often with skateboard in hand,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Our Grandmother-The Inlet””
RKS 2024 Film: “Les Histoires D’Amour de Liv S.” (The Love Stories of Liv S.)
Thirty-eight-year-old Liv Sándor meets the love of her life swimming in the lake. He looks like Bob Dylan. He talks like Rimbaud and he listens to me. The next scene has her storming out of her house a year later saying to her swimming sweetie that she is leaving and never returning. After storming outContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Les Histoires D’Amour de Liv S.” (The Love Stories of Liv S.)”
RKS 2024 Film: “ Praying For Armageddon”: The End of the World…..Again
Watching “Praying For Armageddon” what struck me was the look of the Christian fundamentalists in this documentary. I thought for a moment these were the same faces and personalities as in the “Freedom Convoy” which descended in Ottawa on 22January2022. Ostensibly their protest centred on COVID governmental restrictions on individual liberty but were much broaderContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “ Praying For Armageddon”: The End of the World…..Again”
RKS 2024 Film: “Suze”: Go Ahead and Dump Everything on a Good Trooper
Suze (Michaela Watkins) is a single divorcee living with her self centred and spoilt daughter Brooke (Sara Waisglass) in Hamilton, Ontario. Nothing is going Suze’s way. Just as Brooke is off to start McGill University in Montreal her goofy boyfriend Gabe attempts suicide and his father then dumps Gabe on Suze to watch as heContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Suze”: Go Ahead and Dump Everything on a Good Trooper”
RKS 2024 Film: “Exile”: Canadian Hitchcockian Delight!
Ted Evans (Adam Beach) is a remorseful man consumed by guilt but then again he may be suffering from post traumatic stress disorder veering into a serious delusional. Too much vodka one night behind the wheel he crashes into the car driven by Mrs. McGrath killing her and her two children. Ted is convinced inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Exile”: Canadian Hitchcockian Delight!”
RKS 2024 Film: “To Kill a Tiger”: Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
In a small Indian village Kiran, a 13-year-old, is savagely beaten and raped by three young men and then threatened with death if she tells anyone about the rape. Kiran tells her father Ranjit of the gang rape and he notifies the police. The lads are arrested and jailed. Given the prevalence of rape inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “To Kill a Tiger”: Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film”
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