May 5, 2009
La Donation (2009) **
A portrait of a remote village in northern Canada, seen through the eyes of a physician.
5150 rue des Ormes (2009) **
A horror film about a young student held captive by a strange suburban family.
Before Tomorrow (2009) *
Very tedious film about a smallpox epidemic destroying a small Inuit community in northern Canada in the 1840's. Told from the point of view of the only survivors, an old woman and her young grandson.
RIP: A Remix Manifesto (2009) **
Canadian documentary film about the shocking abuses of the copyright protection laws.
Silence on vaccine (2009) *
Controversial documentary about the dangers of vaccination policies in Canada, United States and France. Politically right-wing, the film mostly promotes the views of vaccination skeptics such as conservative Republican Congressman Dan Burton of Indiana (who believes that his own grandson became autistic after being vaccinated). English title: "Shots In The Dark".
3 saisons (2009) *
Canadian film about two couples facing unexpected pregnancies and a man seeking revenge.
Une Tente sur Mars (2009) *
Bizarre, extremely pretentious documentary about an abandoned mining town in northern Canada and its Native inhabitants. Another predictable "white people are awful" diatribe, though its representation of Natives as hopeless drunks is hardly politically-correct.
Le Bonheur de Pierre (2009) *
Imagine "Jean de Florette" as a comedy, and you'll get "Le Bonheur de Pierre", a story of a gentle Frenchman (Pierre Richard) who inherits a small bed-and-breakfast in a little Canadian town, but finds himself hated and persecuted by his new neighbors. Amusing at times, but in a sadistic sort of way.
Je me souviens (2009) *
Atrocious, Communist-propaganda movie about labor struggles in a small mining town in Canada. Initially coherent, the film suddenly abandons its main political story mid-stream, and turns into a convoluted, incomprehensible mess. It's as bad as the worst films of Ed Wood Jr.
Les Grandes chaleurs (2009) *
A widow in her 50s has an intense love affair with a 20-year-old juvenile delinquent.
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