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The Barbarian InvasionsRemy, divorced and in his early fifties, becomes urgently hospitalized. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their son Sebastien to come home from London where he now lives. Sebastien hesitat...
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CrashBased on J.G. Ballard′s controversial 1973 science fiction novel of the same name. David Cronenberg′s Crash is a study of the intersection of eroticism and technology, which is man...
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The Decline of the American EmpireThe Decline of the American Empire is a brilliant black comedy of manners constructed around a series of satiric and witty conversations about sex, love and life between several Mo...
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EmileEmile is the story of an aging professor who makes a journey from his home in England to receive an honorary from the University of Victoria on Canada′s west coast. Although this f...
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Family ViewingAtom Egoyan′s second feature, the dark and disturbing-but persistently witty-Family Viewing, resumed the concerns established with Next of Kin(1984): his fascinations with video, e...
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The Fast RunnerThe Fast Runner is an epic saga based on an ancient Inuit legend set in the eastern arctic wilderness near Igloolik at the dawn of the first millennium. Evil in the form of an unkn...
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Flower & GarnetEight-year old Garnet and his sixteen-year old sister Flower have grown up in an environment of stifled grief. Their mother died unexpectedly while giving birth to Garnet and since...
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Marion BridgeThe attractive Agnes receives crushing news at her home in Toronto--her mother Rose is gravely ill. So Agnes decides to return to her small town home of Sydney, Nova Scotia There s...
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Saddest Music in the World, TheWhentheimpossible,thearchaic,theobtuseandtheincestuousconvergeoverCanadaonlyonefilm-makercanberesponsible:Winnipeg′sGuyMaddin.DuringthefullblackbloomoftheGreatDepression,failedBroa...
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HamsunKnut Hamsun, the Norwegian writer and Nobel prize-winner was a widely admired and passionate man. Hamsun actively supported the occupation of his country by the Nazisin World War I...