Hot Docs 2019 (Capsule Reviews)

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Published: Thursday, 25 April 2019 19:22

Written by Gilbert Seah

HOT DOCS 2019 Begins this Week April 26th in Toronto.

For complete program,please check the HOT DOCS website.

(There are deals for senios and students with free movie screenings.)

Capsule Reviews of Selected Films:

ADVOCATE (Canada/Switzerland/Israel 2018) ***

Directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche

The doc is he story of tireless and fearless Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from nonviolent demonstrators to armed militants.   She is not popular among the Israelis.   ADVOCATE follows Tsemel’s caseload in real time, including the high-profile trial of a 13-year-old boy — her youngest client to date — while also revisiting her landmark cases and reflecting on the political significance of her work and the personal price one pays for taking on the role of “devil’s advocate.” Directing duo Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche assume the privileged position of a fly on the wall of Tsemel’s practice, where a year of documenting is like gathering a lifetime of evidence.  The film is exciting as the two cases presented, and the audience sees not only Lea at work but how judicial systems work.  Even if the accused is innocent, a plea bargain is created for the accused to plead guilty for a lesser charge or face greater penalty if found guilty.  The film is hastily edited with the intercut cases and a lot of padding is evident from the life of Lea from student to her current position.  The interviews of her family - husband, son and daughter break the flow the court cases.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/320517522

BUDDY (Netherlands 2018) **

Directed by Heddy Honigmann

BUDDY follows the stories of six guide dogs and their owners exploring  the close bond between animal and human.  Among them are a now 86-year-old blind woman who reflects back upon all the dogs that have been at her side since she was 21,  an autistic boy who explains how his loyal friend Utah can tell when he’s upset and a war veteran suffering from PTSD.   These owners are not very interesting to listen too and director Honihmann spends more time on the humans than the dogs.  Nothing is revealed on how these dogs are trained on how they are bred or why a certain  breed is suitable for different disabilites.  The dogs look really sad in the way they are forced to care for their masters.  I love dogs and dog movies, but BUDDY does not do anything for me nor shed any insight of these poor lovable caretakers.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xQjL-hmPiA

THE DAUGHTER TREE (Canada 2019) ****
Directed by Rama Rau

Indians are stubborn to have a boy.  They abort the girls.  Changing the natural order results in unbalances in the human ecology of things.  There are insufficient girls to be married off and many males end up singles, unable to find a wife.  Brides are often sold to willing males.  The insightful doc THE DAUGHTER TREE, filmed in India is an entertaining  and absorbing examination of the problem.  This is a totally new Canadian documentary written, produced and directed by Rama Rau, an epic documentary film, six years in the making, about the disappearance of women in India resulting in all-male populations in some villages.  If there is a feminist themed movie, this is the one as it deals with the subject from the roots.  Females are just as important if not more important than  their male counterparts.  The film explores the aftermath of a cultural preference for baby boys sweeping through interior India, through the eyes of a fearless Warrior midwife called Neelam who counsels and advocates for baby girls, while a lone man in the Village of Men - so called because no girl has been born here the past three decades - goes on a quest to find a wife.  The film is also beautifully shot by D.P. Nagaraj Diwakar.  India never looks so stunning, especially not in a documentary.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/244731236

FOR SAMA (UK/USA/Syria 2019) ***
Directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts

The doc begins with the image of a baby and a picture of a an 18-year old girl, that is supposed to be taken 10 years prior to the making of the doc.  It turns out that the girl is Waad Al Kateab, the doc’s co-director and mother of the baby named Sama.  She is making the doc for her daughter Sama, detailing the experiences she and her husband went through in evacuating the city of Aleppo, Syria, where she grew up.  Over the course of several years, Waad al-Kateab has been filming the uprising in her home city of Aleppo, Syria.  Capturing the brutal conflict all around her comes with added personal stakes as she falls in love and becomes pregnant with her first child.  The film also attests the strength of women in war.  At one point in the film, the women chant: “We are resilient!  We are strong.”  The film contains disturbing images of war.  After six months of the city under siege, the camera pans the destruction of rubble and dust ads the citizens of Aleppo prepare their evacuation.  FOR SAMA captures the danger and turmoil the citizens of Aleppo have gone through.  Trailer: (unavailable)

INSIDE LEHMAN BROTHERS (Canada/France 2018) ***1/2
A film by Jennifer Deschamps

INSIDE LEHMAN BROTHER is a documentary about finance.  Those involved in the world of stocks and finance will find this doc timely, insightful and interesting but how about the other group of people not dealing with the financial world.  Director Deschamps, a French journalist (who co-wrote the script) attempts to bring interest to this group of people as well so that the film will have a larger target audience.  The doc begins with what appears to be an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances.  She is in a big residence in a large wooded area and says: “I would scream but no one would ever listen.”   Deschamps clearly has got her audience’s curiosity piqued.   As mortgage brokers for Lehman’s subsidiary BNC, Linda Weekes and her Californian colleagues were at the forefront of the subprime crisis.  The whistle blower is Matthew Lee then headquartered in New York, who was the first leader to have refused to validate the accounts tainted by fraudulent transactions.  Former CEO Richard (Dick) Fuld Jr. is the chief villain on display, an an evil villain at that.  There are appearances of President Trump (another villain) and ex-President Obama (the hero) in the film.  If Deschamps's aim is to infuriate the audience at the injustice, she has done a great job.  The details are explained, making up the bulk the movie.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_2k-OXzgXY

PUSH (Sweden 2019) ***
Directed by Fredrik Gertten

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world.  Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unlivable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all.  Cities that director Gertten examines and takes his audience to include Toronto and London.  The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she is travelling the globe, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city and why. “I believe there’s a huge difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a commodity.   Gold is not a human right, housing is,” says Leilani.  The film shows that lean can make a difference as she organizes meeting around the world to combat the villains like Blackrock Funds.  Gertten and Leinai will both be present during the film screening at Hot Docs.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/324962587

PREY (Canada 2019) ***1/2

Directed by Matt Gallagher

PREY opens with a shot of a man dress  up in a tie and suit.  He is Rob Tallach, a Civil Lawyer.  He is nicknamed the priest hunter as he hunts down these priests perpetuators that prey on young boys.  And he has quite a number of cases to his credit.  Many have only recently come forward to speak publicly, while others have been silenced through settlements. One of the perpetrators, Father Rod Marshall, (interviewed in the movie when he was still alive) pled guilty to 17 assault charges; a colleague, Father David Katulski, called him a “very good pedophile.” One of his victims, seeking closure for this traumatic part of his childhood, filed suit against the Basilian Fathers of Toronto for its role in enabling Marshall’s depravity. The film is partly courtroom drama.  Everyone loves a solid courtroom drama and PREY provides one of the best.  But this trial was not about guilt or innocence, but about how much money the church should pay in compensation for the devastating fallout from the abuse.  The climax of the film is the verdict. 

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/323986619

THE WORLD OR NOTHING (EL MUNDO O NADA) (Canada 2019) **
Directed by Ingrid Verninger

The film, the first doc from Canadian director Ingrid Verninger is a portrait of 29-year-old Cuban twin brothers, Rubert and Rubildo Donation Dinza, which begins two-months after their arrival in Barcelona, Spain.  The film, shot in Barcelona explores the obsession and opportunity of today’s social media, the emotional cost of having big ambitions, the intimate bonds of sibling love, and the challenges of building a new life.  For the brothers, “The World” means achieving one-million friends on social media, making their parents proud, starting a family, and gaining international recognition as a dancing, singing, performing duo. “Nothing” is not really an option.  The twins are not particularly bright nor do they have anything worthwhile to offer, except maybe a bit of cool dancing.  Why Verninger has selected these two as her subjects is puzzling.  She has done better with her fiction films that are down-to-earth that offer the occasional insight on life.  This one is simply boring.

Trailer: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5m82wqsb1dx13ql/WorldorNothing_Trailer.mp4?dl=0

FILM REVIEW: Ghost Town Anthology

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Published: Monday, 18 March 2019 00:45

Written by Gilbert Seah

GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY ( Répertoire des villes disparues)(Canada 2019) ***
Directed by Denis Côté

Before appreciating the small budget pensive drama GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY, a bit of background on its writer/director Denis Côté should be worthy of note.

Denis Côté is a Quebecois direct born in New Brunswick.  He is known as an experimental filmmaker with five of his previous film with no scripts and 5 with scripts.  In films like his documentary BEASTAIRE, he had lots of footage he shot at the zoo and wondered what to to with the footage before assembling the footage into a coherent film.  The films of  Denis Côté have been respected over the years and a number of cinematheques around the world have already organized retrospectives of his work.  Personally, I  admire Denis Côté's work.  They are pensive, meticulously crafted and intelligently conceived.

His latest work, GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY has its experimental roots but is arguably his most accessible wok to date.  The film bears  his trademarks like carcasses of dead animals that are frequently found in the story - in this case a dead deer.  The film can be described as a different kind of zombie (or ghost) film.  Zombies appear in the film but no one is hurt.  No one attacks the zombies and as a result the zombies do not attack the town folk either.  But they appear and the villagers recognize them as being previous dead residents.  If all this sounds too weird or feels that this is not your kind of  movie that stay away - but the film definitely has its rewards.

The film is set in the small town of Sainte-Irénée-les-Neiges, Quebec with a population of only 215.  The film opens with a car on a road that swerves to the side hitting stacks of hard objects casing the death of its driver, revealed soon to be a leading respected citizen of the town who everyone loves.  The town is shocked and speechless.  They claim the death as as suicide but from the scene, it looks more like the car took a deliberate turn, implying a suicide.  Suicide or accident?   The inhabitants of the town struggle to cope with the death of Simon Dubé, the teenage son of the family.  The odd thing is that two figures wearing masks witness the crash and are seen running away from it after.   More figures wearing these ‘ghostly’ masks appear later in the film as well.  It is a small town where everyone knows everybody as she does, prides the mayor, Simone Smallwood (Diane Lavallee) who becomes visibly upset when the county sends a stranger to her town to help the people cope with the tragedy of a death.  Director Cote knows how to grab and hold the audiences attention despite the film’s slow pace.  More odd incidents occur as well as more characters are introduced into the story.  A welfare teen is the first to see the zombies.  The dead Simon appears to both his brother and mother.

GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY is another of Cote’s pensive teasers, so don’t expect any resolutions to the zombie crisis.  Also: great sound effects and occasionally great gothic atmosphere.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTWLFlWJEWs

Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2019

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Published: Thursday, 28 March 2019 13:17

Written by Gilbert Seah

THE 2019 TORONTO HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL

TIFF ® and Human Rights Watch co-present the 16th annual Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival with a bold new lineup of films that spotlights global crises and provides a platform to expose stories that have long been hidden in the shadows.  The films present compelling and urgent narratives on topics ranging from free speech and LGBTQ+ rights to religious freedoms and the effects of censorship on democratic society. 

This year’s festival, running from April 3 to 10, 2019 at TIFF Bell Lightbox, features seven powerful films from nine countries: Brazil, France, Germany, China (Hong Kong), Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States.  Four of the seven films were directed or co-directed by women.  Most screenings will be accompanied by discussions with filmmakers, Human Rights Watch researchers, or subject-matter experts, to spark conversations around the challenging issues featured in the films and to add important context. 

At this year’s Opening Night, Human Rights Watch honours and pays tribute to trailblazers and award-winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier at the festival’s opening reception. Berlin Peace Film Award winner and Oscar-shortlisted documentary The Silence of Others is the Opening Night Film, which follows the victims of Francisco Franco and their ongoing fight for legal reparations against the Spanish dictator’s surviving fascist henchmen.  Additional highlights from this year’s lineup include: the TIFF 2018 selection Ghost Fleet, examining the global fishing industry as a Thai human-rights activist, Patima Tungpuchayakul, and her team seek to bring home workers essentially enslaved at sea; the Prix Europa winner and Sundance selection The Cleaners, an inside look at people hired to moderate online content for corporations and at those affected by such censorship; and the closing night film, the Tribeca selection Roll Red Roll, the true story of a whistle-blowing blogger who exposed a community’s complicity in a vicious crime while examining the pervasiveness of rape culture and the ways in which it must be dismantled. 

For the complete film lineup - Visit tiff.net/humanrightswatch.

Opening Night. 

The Silence of Others Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar | USA/Spain | 2018 The Silence of Others reveals the struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under the fascist general Francisco Franco who continue to seek justice. Filmed over six years, it follows the survivors as they organize the groundbreaking Argentine lawsuit to fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, and explores a country still divided four decades into democracy. The Silence of Others, whose executive producers were Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García, is the second documentary feature by the Emmy-winning filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar (Made in L.A.). Wednesday, April 3, 8pm 

A Family Tour Ying Liang | Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia | 2018 Five years ago, the Chinese filmmaker Yang Shu made a film that offended the Chinese government. She has since been forced to remain in exile in Hong Kong. When her mother, who had been ill, suffers a relapse, Yang Shu uses the opportunity of a film festival in Taiwan to reunite her family while keeping to the strictly regulated schedule of a Chinese tour company. Introduced by Farida Deif, Canada Director, Human Rights Watch. Thursday, April 4, 6:30pm 

No Box for Me. An Intersex Story Floriane Devigne | France | 2018 Intersex is often still dealt with as a pathology that must be treated and repaired. This film reflects on the ways intersex people seek to reappropriate their bodies and construct their identities, and questions the standards our societies impose in the name of social norms. Introduced by Neela Ghoshal, Senior Researcher in the LGBT Rights program, Human Rights Watch Friday, April 5, 6:30pm 

Ghost Fleet Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron | USA | 2018 People normally think of slavery as a part of history. But in the global fishing industry, a modern form of slavery takes place far out at sea where no one can bear witness.  A Thai human rights activist, Patima Tungpuchayakul, has led a crusade to help her country's victims and expose their conditions. In Ghost Fleet, viewers follow her team on a seafaring rescue mission to bring home prisoners who have spent years in captivity. Introduced by director Shannon Service followed by Q&A discussion

CAPSULE REVIEWS OF SELECTED FILMS

THE CLEANERS (Germany 2018) ***
Directed by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck

THECLEANERS, the new doc that premiered to sold-out performances at this year’s Hot Docs brings the audience into the hidden third world shadow industry of digital cleaning, where the internet rids itself of what it doesn’t like.  The new documentary THECLEANERS unashamedly touts the all importance of ‘cleaners’ at the very start of the film.  Words (titles) on screen emphasize the millions of tweets, posts on youtube and the millions of people connected on social media going to say how much the internet would be a mess without THECLEANERS. TheCleaners delete images, videos and texts that violate the rules of social media. his is none from, (surprise! surprise!) none other than Manila in the Philippines.  The film introduces five “digital scavengers” among thousands of people outsourced from Silicon Valley whose job it is to delete “inappropriate” content off the net. In a parallel struggle, we meet people around the globe whose lives are dramatically affected by online censorship.  The film is even more shocking when it shows glimpses of a few of these deleted images.  The directors cannot resist sensationalization from their film.  There is a disturbing segment which shows an image of a beheading done with a dull knife (like  kitchen knife) resulting in a crooked cut with lots of blood.  The film lacks a proper conclusion for the reason that problems presented in the film have no clear resolution.  Promises by the high tech giant executives are difficult to keep despite good intentions.   

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA1DxRdT2hA

NO BOX FOR ME. AN INTERSEX STORY (France 2018) ***

NI D’EVE NI N’ADAM UE HISTOIRE INTERSEX

(French title: Neither Eve, Neither Adam: An Intersex Story)
Directed by Floriane Levigne

“Intersex” is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that do not seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.   It is estimated that 2% of the population are born with some kind of gender variation.  For example, a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside, but having mostly male-typical anatomy on the inside.  This doc is abut Intersex people.  The main issue is to decide for the intersex person whether to be male or female and in many cases, an operation done at an early age to fix the gender.  However, as the body develops, the chromosomes might turn out the opposite.  NO BOX FOR ME examines this problem with 3 intersex subjects, letting them have their say.  Animation is used to illustrate the problem they go through.  The film though running just around 60 minutes, will be an eye-opener for many, myself included for the one reason that I do not know any intersex people.  The films best line is uttered by an intersex man to an intern lady, of the people that have insulted him because of his condition: “I pity them.  They will always be normal.  We will always be different.”

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ0mW1OQaK4

ROLL RED ROLL (USA 2018) ***1/2
Directed by Nancy Schwartzman

RED is the colour and name of the famous football team and pride of the town Steubenville, OHIO.  But part of the fame comes from a scandal which rocked the nation.  Two of the football team members, Hays and Richmond were arrested for allegedly raping an unconscious and drunk underaged girl (referred to as Jane Doe) at a drunk-fest pre-game party.  The doc is an example in which the subject is so upsetting and intriguing that the audience would be totally glued to the screen regardless off how good the doc actually is.  Thankfully, the doc is not half bad and gets the audience to be on the side of the female victim right from the start with the narration performed by a crime blogger, Alexandria Goddard whose work actually brought this crime into light.  The climax of the film is the revelation on whether the two boys will be convicted with a guilty verdict.  There is another twist in the plot which adds nicely to the film’s conclusion.  The film is also totally relevant in these times of sexual harassment.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/295637537

THE SILENCE OF OTHERS (Spain 2018) ***1/2

Directed by Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar

(OPENING NIGHT FILM)

One of the biggest docs to premiere at Toronto’s HOT DOS 2018 was Pedro Almodovar’s presentation of THE SILENCE OF OTHERS, a film about the evil of the Franco regime of 40 years.  The film gets personal at the film’s start when a 90-ish old women places flowers at the side of the road.  She is still mourning the death of her mother, who was taken away by the townsfolk way back in the 30’s and left by the side of the road.  Her body was not allowed to be taken to the cemetery.  Footage taken in 1936 the shows Franco next to Hitler followed by massacre of rows of people and other injustices such as brutal beatings by Franco troops. All the above occurs within the first 5 minutes of the film so the audience is primed for a solid riveting historical documentary.  This elderly woman is just one person seeking just for inhumanities done during the Franco regime.  She and many others want their relatives’ graves exhumed for their remains.  Others were tortured by officials in the regime.  They,understandably want justice.  The film follows a select few of those who suffered under the Franco regime.  Many want the torturers punished and go to jail while others want the bodies of their dead ones back for proper burial.  The film centres on their emotions especially showing their joy and relief after the courts have passed sentence.

Trailer: http://www.critic.de/film/the-silence-of-others-11676/trailer/

The Canadian Film Festival 2019

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Published: Friday, 15 March 2019 04:26

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The Canadian Film Fest 2019

  The Festival will open with Shane Belcourt’s Red Rover, starring Kristian Bruun and Cara Gee following a lonely geologist qualifying for a one-way mission to Mars with the help of an offbeat musician, and will close with Jaren Hayman’s documentary This is North Preston about the economic and racial struggles in the largest black community in the country. Continuing the Festival’s commitment to support Canadian independent films, this year the CFF 

introduces a second Homegrown Shorts programme. Nine features and 28 shorts will screen over the five-day event including six World Premieres, ranging in stories from deep exploration to historical satire, intense thrillers to warm romances. The 13th edition of CFF will take place March 19-23 at Cineplex’s Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto. Tickets can be purchased at canfilmfest.ca.

“This year’s lineup is one of the most entertaining programmes yet and we’re 

delighted that once again we can give Toronto audiences the opportunity to see 

them on the big screen,” said Bern Euler, Executive Director, Canadian Film 

Fest. “We are also honoured to welcome award-winning film producer Don 

Carmody to our first Producing Masterclass, inspiring and supporting a network 

of Canadian artists.”

This year’s feature film highlights include the Toronto Premiere of compelling 

documentaries Alone Across the Atlantic about Canada’s greatest living 

explorer, Adam Shoalts’ 2017 4,000 km solo journey across the Canadian Arctic, 

and Wolves Unleashed: Against All Odds about world renowned animal 

trainer, Andrew Simpson and his difficult task training wild Mongolian wolves in 

China for the film Wolf Totem; as well as the World Premieres of Gord Rand’s 

biting satire Pond Life about suburban dreams and family nightmares.

CFF will also present two incredible Homegrown Shorts programmes for the first 

time including the Toronto Premieres of Shelley Thompson’s drama Duck Duck 

Goose about an elementary school teacher and her students coping with fear 

and guilt during a school lockdown; Juan Riedinger’s A Snake Marked about a 

convict forced to examine his own place in the world when his estranged father 

visits; and Shane Day’s directorial debut The Desolation Prize, a throwback to 

the 60s style hammer horrors, but with a modern edge. The Festival is pleased to 

screen seven shorts that will have their World Premieres including Chala 

Hunter’s directorial debut Moon Dog with Martha Burns and Alice Snaden.

The Festival will host a number of engaging industry events and workshops 

including the first ever Producers Masterclass with legendary producer Don 

Carmody exploring small and large budget films; a panel discussion on 

transitioning from the big screen to the small screen; and a panel with film festival 

programmers on how they programme their events. Visit canfilmfest.ca for details 

on the Industry programme in the coming days. 

For the complete list of titles for this year’s festival, click on canfilmfest.ca

CAPSULE REVIEWS OF SELECT FILMS:

POND LIFE (Canada 2018) ***
Directed by Gord Rand

POND LIFE settles on a couple at home - a seemingly happily married couple, Dick (Ryan Blakely) and Sandy (Jeanie Calleja), high school sweethearts.  The relationship is about to be tested.  As Dick makes sexual advances towards his wife (showing a still healthy marriage), Sandy reveals that her sister or foster sister as Dick corrects his wife, Daisy (Kerry McPherson) and boyfriend, Richard (Ryan McVittie) are on their way to visit.  Two couples.  Two secrets.  And a night to celebrate a pregnancy goes haywire. As the film progresses, more plot points are revealed.  It seems that Richard and Dick have known each other quite well and in fact have some shady business going, despite many disagreements.  The story grows more sinister.  POND LIFE turns up a an entertaining quirky tale about couples, the type Canadian films are well-known for.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/189524970

RED ROVER (Canada 2019) **
Directed by Shane Belcourt

Shane Belcourt performs triple duty as director, co-writer and director of photography about an odd ball geologist (Kristian Bruun) and his relationship with a pretty musician (Cara Gee).  Damon, the geologist spends his waking hours searching for that elusive something. Whether it is for deeper meaning, love, or just “treasure” on the beach with his metal detector, it is to no avail.  So when Damon meets an offbeat musician named Phoebe handing out flyers for a one way trip to Mars, a bond quickly forms.  She’s going to help him find that thing he is looking for by sending him 33.9 million miles away, even though what he needs might be right in front of him.  The film hints at a love relationship rather than a plutonic one, and one can hardly tell where everything is heading even half way through the movie.  But the waywardness of the two individuals are nothing out of the ordinary and their gatherings grow tiresome quite soon.  Bruun and Gee carry the film for all that is worth.  The film is shot in Toronto with may familiar sights that should please audiences watching the film at the Canadian Film Fest for which this film has been chosen as the Opening Film.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/294847271