Publication: Take One
Publication Date: 01-DEC-04
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Hays, Matthew
Article Excerpt
IN THE PAST TWO YEARS, one thing has become painfully and undeniably clear for the Canadian film industry. Never have our Two Solitudes seemed so utterly and completely out of synch.
Quebec is on an astonishing roll. The most obvious example, of course, is Les Invasions barbares, which copped a truckload full of awards, including an Oscar and a few Cesars. Then there was the Sundance award-winning Seducing Doctor Lewis, as well as Gaz Bar Blues, Seraphin and Sur le seuil, the English-language-remake rights of which were sold to Miramax. Rounding out the list is Mambo Italiano, proving that language doesn't answer the contrast-with-English-Canada question entirely; Mambo was shot in English and yet still did more than respectable box office within Quebec's borders. English Canada, meanwhile, has seen a stifling 24-month period where very little has stood out. The difference appeared all the more striking when I sat down to...
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