Barrie Film Festival

Leviathan - 4PM
2015-05-07 16:00, 2015-05-06 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Annual Barrie Film Festival
Written and Directed by: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cast: Alexey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Alexey Rozin, Sergey Pokhadaev
Drama, 14A or language and some sexuality/graphic nudity, 141 minutes, Russian with English Subtitles (Russia)
Tickets: Adult $10, Senior/Student $8
Acclaimed Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return) won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes and Golden Globe for this painterly, primordial tale about a proud patriarch fighting to protect his family home from a corrupt local official. Set in the remote Russian northwest, this is the tragic tale of one man’s struggle against a corrupt system of power. Kolya (Alexey Serebryakov), a part-time mechanic, lives on a rocky shore with his wife and son in a house he built himself. When a local mayor attempts to seize the property through a compulsory purchase order he calls in a lawyer friend from Moscow to help fight his case. But the wheels of justice soon prove to be slow, heavy and quite possibly deadly…

“From its chamber-piece delicacy and bureaucratic detail to a grandeur and implacable pessimism that seem as ancient as the land itself, “Leviathan” is a distinctly Russian tragedy.” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
“One of the outstanding films of 2014, Leviathan lives up to its title: it’s a behemoth of intelligent contemporary cinema.” – Jonathan Romney, Film Comment Magazine

Leviathan - 7PM
2015-05-06 19:00

Bon Cop, Bad Cop - 7PM
2015-04-29 19:00
Director: Erik Canuel
Cast: Patrick Huard, Colm Feore
(2006) Action/Crime/Comedy, 14A for course language, some nudity and violence, 116 minutes, English and French with English subtitles (Canada)
Admission: FREE
When a crime is committed on the border of Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to come together, whether they want to or not. As the investigation gets underway, we meet David Boucher (Patrick Huard) and Martin Ward (Colm Feore), members of their respective provincial police forces who are forced to work together. The two men couldn’t be more different. In fact, the only thing they appear to have in common is that they are both cops, albeit cops with totally different styles.

Boychoir - 8PM
2015-04-16 20:00
Director: François Girard
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Josh Lucas, Eddie Izzard and Debra Winger
Drama, PG, 106 minutes (USA)
Tickets: Adult $10, Senior/Student $8
From acclaimed Canadian director François Girard (Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin) comes a drama that the entire family can enjoy: the story of a gifted eleven-year-old boy who must struggle against the odds to find his voice. Stet (newcomer Garrett Wareing) is an angry youngster who can sing like an angel. Orphaned after his mother is killed in a car accident, he ends up boarding at a choir school on the US East Coast — a place about as different from his small Texas town as can be. Feeling misunderstood, out of place, and frustrated with the cards life has dealt him, Stet finds himself at odds with Choirmaster Carvelle (Dustin Hoffman), a disciplinarian of the old school. But he recognizes something special in Stet’s voice, and pushes the boy to put his troubled young soul into the music. Boychoir will have audiences swooning as the film is about the way that music can touch our lives — if only it’s given enough encouragement to come out and play.
“In a country where musical talent is so often confused with sex appeal, Boychoir offers a welcome alternative, celebrating discipline, talent and the sound of untainted innocence.” – Peter Debruge, Variety

Boychoir - 4PM
2015-04-16 16:00

Phoenix - 7pm
2015-04-02 19:00, 2015-04-01 19:00
Drama, 98 minutes, 14A for mature content, some violence and frightening scenes, not recommended for young or sensitive viewers, German with English Subtitles (GERMANY)
Tickets: Adult $10, Senior/Student $8
With his internationally acclaimed films The State I Am In, Yella and Jerichow, Christian Petzold established himself at the forefront of the group of contemporary German filmmakers known as the Berlin School. Following the success of his previous film, Barbara, Petzold returns with another story of a fiercely determined woman — and the deeply divided society to which she belongs — caught between a tragic past and an uncertain future. Emerging from a concentration camp at the end of World War II, Nelly Lenz (played by the formidable Nina Hoss, Petzold’s regular star) undergoes significant reconstructive surgery to repair a facial injury caused by a bullet wound. Nelly wants everything to be exactly the way it was before the war — including her appearance — but it isn’t. Presumed dead by her friends and relatives, fixated on the memories of her former life and unable to accept the shattered reality before her, Nelly returns to Berlin to fulfill the dream that sustained her throughout her imprisonment: reuniting with her husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld). But even as she scours the ravaged city to find him, she is haunted by terrible, whispered rumours: that it was Johnny himself who betrayed her to the Nazis. Travelling beyond Barbara’s setting in the former East Germany to further explore his country’s dark twentieth-century history, Petzold positions Nelly as a powerfully ambiguous representation of the titular phoenix: rising from the ashes of her broken life, she strives not to begin anew but to reclaim the old dreams of the past. Gorgeously shot, featuring impeccable art direction, a faultless score, and two powerhouse performances in the leading roles, Phoenix is one of the most thrilling and engrossing dramas of the year.

Phoenix - 4PM
2015-04-02 16:00, 2015-04-01 16:00

Phoenix - 9PM
2015-04-01 21:00
