YOU GOT A WEIRD THING FOR CANADIAN MELODRAMA: On this
Dominion Day Canada Day we contemplate one of life's burning questions:
what makes a film a Canadian film? Is it the setting? The director and cast? Must it be filmed in Canada? (Can a movie be filmed in Canada and
not be "Canadian"?) Must it be Canadian in tone and pacing,
whatever that means? Is eligibility for the
Genie Canadian Screen Awards sufficient? (
Do you consider Room, Brooklyn, or
Meatballs to be Canadian films?)
FWIW, my favorite film from The True North remains Atom Egoyan's
Exotica, though I think the best is
Dead Ringers -- I just can't bear to watch it again, no matter how good Jeremy Irons was in it.
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