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Mon Oncle Antoine (Criterion Collection)
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Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Mon 0ncle Antoine is Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A poignant, starkly honest, but humane film, shot through with authenticity from beginning to end. Realized with an unflagging artistic vision, Mon 0ncle Antoine poetically portrays a young boy's coming of age, vividly capturing the 1940s Quebec mining town in which he lives. Along with winning many awards in the 33 years since its release, this film has also left a visible influence on succeeding ...
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The Red Violin
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Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Written by Don McKellar, [ds4]The Red Violin is a lavish, decorative, and ambitious film about the history of one very special instrument, the music it made, and the people connected with it--from its dramatic 16th century creation in Cremona, ltaly, up to modern-day Montreal. Directed with vision and artistry by Francois Girard, this fascinating and beautiful movie unfolds as centuries of passion and drama are played out around an inanimate object. From ...
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The Red Violin
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Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Written by Don McKellar, [ds4]The Red Violin is a lavish, decorative, and ambitious film about the history of one very special instrument, the music it made, and the people connected with it--from its dramatic 16th century creation in Cremona, ltaly, up to modern-day Montreal. Directed with vision and artistry by Francois Girard, this fascinating and beautiful movie unfolds as centuries of passion and drama are played out around an inanimate object. From ...
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When Justice Fails
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Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Written by Don McKellar, [ds4]The Red Violin is a lavish, decorative, and ambitious film about the history of one very special instrument, the music it made, and the people connected with it--from its dramatic 16th century creation in Cremona, ltaly, up to modern-day Montreal. Directed with vision and artistry by Francois Girard, this fascinating and beautiful movie unfolds as centuries of passion and drama are played out around an inanimate object. From ...
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Battle of the Brave
»rank: 18261
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Written by Don McKellar, [ds4]The Red Violin is a lavish, decorative, and ambitious film about the history of one very special instrument, the music it made, and the people connected with it--from its dramatic 16th century creation in Cremona, ltaly, up to modern-day Montreal. Directed with vision and artistry by Francois Girard, this fascinating and beautiful movie unfolds as centuries of passion and drama are played out around an inanimate object. From ...
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Naked Lunch
»rank: 18261
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: David Cronenberg takes on William Burroughs's oeuvre of depravity, hallucinations, and talking insects in a film that should have been a disaster. Naked Lunch is a book that most directors would shun from filming. But if anyone can do it, Cronenberg--with his fascination for the bizarre, grotesque, and shadowy side of human nature and his fondness for special effects--can. Cronenberg extracts an interesting cinematic experience (for those open to it) out of ...
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Saints-Martyrs-des-damnés
»rank: 23691
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: David Cronenberg takes on William Burroughs's oeuvre of depravity, hallucinations, and talking insects in a film that should have been a disaster. Naked Lunch is a book that most directors would shun from filming. But if anyone can do it, Cronenberg--with his fascination for the bizarre, grotesque, and shadowy side of human nature and his fondness for special effects--can. Cronenberg extracts an interesting cinematic experience (for those open to it) out of ...
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Mon Oncle Antoine
»rank: 23865
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Mon 0ncle Antoine is Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A poignant, starkly honest, but humane film, shot through with authenticity from beginning to end. Realized with an unflagging artistic vision, Mon 0ncle Antoine poetically portrays a young boy's coming of age, vividly capturing the 1940s Quebec mining town in which he lives. Along with winning many awards in the 33 years since its release, this film has also left a visible influence on succeeding ...
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When Justice Fails
»rank: 23865
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Mon 0ncle Antoine is Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A poignant, starkly honest, but humane film, shot through with authenticity from beginning to end. Realized with an unflagging artistic vision, Mon 0ncle Antoine poetically portrays a young boy's coming of age, vividly capturing the 1940s Quebec mining town in which he lives. Along with winning many awards in the 33 years since its release, this film has also left a visible influence on succeeding ...
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