Just in case the Canadian Film Fest has fallen off your radar or never quite climbed onto it, here are two festival selections that deserve your attention
If one were to judge the national mood by the comments underneath The Globe and Mail’s film and television coverage, than domestic audiences have never been more primed than now to abandon Hollywood and rediscover Canadian entertainment. To that end, the 19th edition of the– which has been running all this week, wrapping on Saturday – should be the talk of the town, given that it exclusively programs movies made by Canadians, largely within the Canadian system.
Filmmaker Ingrid Veninger’s latest work, Crocodile Eyes, is a deeply personal and bold docu-dogme film that unflinchingly captures the raw cycles of life, death, and family with honesty and poignant vulnerability.is alternately electric and inert. The film’s vignettes of life inside the Toronto Public Library system are gently funny and manic, without ever being mean or crass, with Jaye careful to populate Miriam’s workplace with skilled comic co-stars .
The film’s world opens up considerably once Lower is able to bounce her energy off of Mercier – the two create an odd-couple dynamic that feels real, and at times utterly romantic. And even when it is only Lower onscreen, the actress is still capable of shouldering much of the script’s thinly layered emotional weight.
As the long-hailed “queen of DIY filmmaking” goes about collecting cycle-of-life moments that are as authentic as they are unforgettable – including the birth of her grandchild and the death of her father, both documented on film in what feels like real time – Veninger stitches together a film that feels so fiercely alive it threatens to almost combust right off the screen.
While the result can sometimes appear as if though it’s a collection of craftily staged home movies stitched together, it only takes a few scenes to become fully locked into Veninger’s personal life, which is in turn her artistic life, too – an entire world, ready to be screened for anyone similarly curious and creative when it comes to the human condition. How very, well, Canadian.
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