^ that sounds great.


i really enjoyed one week.

I watched a Canadian film last night (!). The opening credits were rolling as I came in the house and I saw that it starred Arsinée Khanjian (and don't they all?) The film was called Sabah and it is, perhaps, the quintessential Toronto film. A family of Syrian-Canadians is living in comfortable disharmony when an unhypenated person enters their lives. Chaos ensues to a backdrop of streetcars, the CNN Tower and the flatiron building. The incongruity of there being a cradle Canadian, from Sudbury already, living in Toronto is milked heavily for what little humour the film contains. The plot id leaden, the outcome predictable, a crueler person might say that in itself reflects Toronto, but I'm feeling generous; ignore the cardboard cutout characters and their simple interactions, in the details the film well captures life in the city.

I just the DVD second hand from blockbuster - OK I'm a cheap bastard! - and it was worth the money.

Damned with faint praise:

Actually it was pretty good - not a "blockbuster" styule movie. More quiet and unassuming, but well paced, fairly humourous and gave a good pictorial view of Canada.

I liked the guys riding across Canada on the Canadian Tire special bikes - stopping in at every town to replace them with new ones LOL.

But there's got to be more than being Canadian than understanding "rrrrroll-up-the-rim-to-win!"

Glad you enjoyed it ...

That sounds a bit too "worthy" for me ...

Blimey, you're the one who's suggesting a slow moving low budget film with ethnic characters and humour requiring specific local cultural knowledge.

Went to a test screening last year at Atom Egoyan's bar on Queen West in Toronto. Afterwards had a few pints of Guinness with the director.
I enjoyed it, although i'm not certain how close to the one I saw the commercial release would be.

Unashamedly Canadian.

True

Your director sounds more serious and ambitious than mine

Oh yes. I certainly wouldn't have rented that film. Not terrible though, lots of Bollywoodish sequences and th unhyphenated guy wasn't too wooden.

'lets all hate Toronto' got pretty tiresome very quickly...and I'm not a big fan of YYZ.

Fubar...now there is classic movie about un-hypenated Canajuns.