Next weekend the Canadian High Commission will open its doors to show two Canadian films to the first 100 persons to arrive in celebration of that country’s successful film and television industry.
The Canadian movie nights will kick off next Saturday evening at 6pm in ‘The Chapel,’ a section of the high commission located on High and Young Streets. Another movie will be shown the following night and come next year the doors will open again on January 11 and 12, 2008, when two more films will be shown.
The film to be shown next Saturday is titled C.R.A.Z.Y which is about two loves – a father’s love for his five sons and the love of one of his sons for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. The son is Zac Beaulieu, born on December 25, 1969 who is different from all his brothers, but desperate to fit in. The title of the film is an acronym for the names of the five brothers, Christian, Raymond, Antoine, Zachary and Yvan. The focus of the film is on the second youngest son, Zachary, whose burgeoning homosexuality becomes a sticking point between himself and his father.
On Sunday night viewers will be seeing Dodging the Clock, which is described as a hilarious comedy that digs deep into the ambivalence many men feel towards parenthood. It revolves around three men: Fred, who feels no pressure to become a father despite his girlfriend’s insistence; Paul, whose girlfriend is already pregnant and who is terrified by the imperatives of his impending paternity; and Sabastien who is the proud father of an eight-month-old baby who realises his family is becoming the centre of his ever-shrinking world. Despite the beer drinking, moose hunting and baseball playing, the movie unsettles the usual clich
