Barrie Film Festival

The Leisure Seeker - 7PM
2018-03-08 19:00 - 20:52, 2018-03-07 19:00 - 20:52 (America/Toronto) | Annual Barrie Film Festival
The Leisure Seeker
Screening:
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 – 4 pm, 7 pm
Thursday, March 8, 2018 – 4 pm, 7 pm
Location: Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie

Directed by: Paolo Virzi
Principle Cast: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Kirsty Mitchell and Christian McKay
Drama/Adventure, 14A mature theme and language, 112 minutes
Language: English (Italy/France)

“It’s bluntly honest … and finds a rough-edged humour in that frankness.”
– Robbie Collin, DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK)

An elderly couple, both diagnosed with serious illnesses, decide to live their last days on the road instead of in a hospital. Ella (Helen Mirren) has incurable cancer. Her husband John (Donald Sutherland), a former high school English professor, is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Ella opts to tune up the vintage Winnebago they’ve dubbed “The Leisure Seeker” and hit the highway, traveling from Boston to Florida. She lets John, who’s not always sure what they’re doing or where they’re going, drive, but she assures him they’re on a vacation. They stop at diners and camp at trailer sites, on their way to Key West to visit the house where Ernest Hemingway — one of John’s favorite writers — once lived.

Awards:
Won, Capri Ensemble Cast Award, Italy, 2017
Nominated, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Helen Mirren), Golden Globes, USA, 2018
Nominated, Best Film, Venice Film Festival, Italy, 2017
Nominated, Outstanding Feature Film and Actress (Helen Mirren), Women’s Image Awards, USA, 2018

The Leisure Seeker - 4PM
2018-03-08 16:00 - 17:52, 2018-03-07 16:00 - 17:52

Back to Burgundy - 7PM
2018-02-15 19:00 - 20:53
Back to Burgundy (Ce qui nous lie)
Screening: Thursday, February 15, 2018 – 4pm, 7pm
Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie
Co-written and Directed by: Cédric Klapisch
Cast: Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot, François Civil, Jean-Marc Roulot and Marîa Valverde
Comedy/Drama, 14A for mature thematics, 113 minutes French/English/Spanish with English subtitles (France)

“Have you come back from your holiday brimming with buy-your-own-vineyard fantasies? Slake that thirst with this French art house crowd-pleaser.” – Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, Times (UK)

“The performances are engaging and the film is very likeable, especially as we witness the landscapes through the changing seasons of sun-dappled summer and snow-clad winter.” – Allan Hunter, Daily Express (UK)

Back to Burgundy tells the story of Jean, who left his family and his native Burgundy ten years ago to tour the world. When learning of his father’s imminent death he returns to his childhood home where he, his sister, Juliette, and brother, Jérémie, inherit their family vineyard. As the seasons go by and they work to save the vineyard, they’ll have to learn to trust each other again and reinvent their relationship.

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Back to Burgundy - 4PM
2018-02-15 16:00 - 17:53

C'est La Vie! - 7PM
2018-02-08 19:00, 2018-02-07 19:00
C’est La Vie! (Le sens de la fête)
Screening:
Wednesday, February 7 – 4pm, 7pm
Thursday, February 8 – 4pm, 7pm
Location: Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie

Directed by: Eric Toledano and Oliver Nakache
Principle Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Suzanne Clément, Jean-Paul Rouve, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Judith Chemia
Comedy, 115 minutes, PG, French with English Subtitles (France)

“This is an expertly assembled, tartly played and hugely enjoyable romp …” – Boyd van Hoeii, Hollywood Reporter

“Co-directors and screenwriters Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache (Untouchables) pull another magical trick out of the hat with a ruthlessly-plotted breeze of ensemble good humour, C’est La Vie!” – Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International

Max (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper sensitive singer who thinks he’s a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micro-managing groom determined to make Max’s night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max’s colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette (Suzanne Clément; Mommy, Laurence Anyways), seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It’s going to be a very long night… especially once the groom’s aerial serenade gets underway. An ensemble work brimming with offbeat, lovable characters, and hilarious set pieces, C’est la vie! is a fiendishly smart, sprawling comedy as only the French do it. You will be laughing all the way down the aisle.

C'est La Vie! - 4PM
2018-02-08 16:00, 2018-02-07 16:00

PECKING ORDER - 7:30PM
2018-02-04 19:30 - 20:28
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Sunday, February 4, 7:30 pm
Written and Directed by: Slavko Martinov
Documentary, PG, 88 min. (New Zealand)

“An absolutely hilarious and very pointed exploration of politics and culture on the smallest possible scale. And a lot of good-lookin’ chickens.” – Mary Ann Johanson, Flick Filosopher

“This is quirkily compulsive viewing.” – David Aldridge, Radio Times

“As feathers are ruffled by ego and envy, the film doubles as a surprisingly affecting fable of fun turning fowl.” – Simon Kinnear, Total Film

“A documentary about New Zealand’s leading chicken breeders may not immediately seize the imagination, but, like Best in Show, the mockumentary it often resembles, Slavko Martinov’s film is often hilarious.” – Ed Potton, Times (UK)

This feel good feather-ruffling flockumentary takes you into the distinctly Kiwi world of competitive poultry pageantry, inhabited by a group of understated, witty and likable chicken lovers hell-bent on victory at the New Zealand National Poultry Show.

This heart-warming film about the circle of life, power struggles and the need for progress, follows members of the Christchurch Poultry, Pigeon and Bantam Club struggling to peak at nationals while decades of club infighting threaten to tear their 148-year-old club apart. Who will ‘Rule the Roost’?

Awards:
Nominated, Best Documentary, Adelaide Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Foreign Documentary Trailer, Golden Trailer Awards, 2017
Nominated, People’s Choice Award – Best Documentary, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2017

SPETTACOLO - 5:30PM
2018-02-04 17:30 - 19:01
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Sunday, February 4, 5:30 pm
Directed by: Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen
Documentary, PG, 91 min., Italian with English subtitles (USA)

“Spettacolo stands as a testament to making art in the face of general indifference and worldly decline, and the belief that a can-do spirit and deep-seated cynicism are not mutually exclusive ideas.” – Virkram Murthi, AV Club

“An engaging and wistful look at the tiny Tuscan village of Monticchielo and its longtime tradition of producing “autodramas,” works crafted by, starring and thematically inspired by its residents.” – Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront their social issues: they turned their lives into a play. Every summer, their piazza became their stage, and residents of all ages played a part; the role of themselves. Monticchiello’s annual tradition has attracted worldwide attention and kept the town together for 50 years, but with an aging population and a future generation more interested in Facebook than farming, the town’s 50th anniversary performance might just be its last. Spettacolo tells the story of Teatro Povero di Monticchiello, interweaving episodes from its past with its modern day process, as the villagers turn a series of devastating blows into a new play about the end of their world.

Awards:
Won, Audience Award, Biografilm Festival, 2017
Won, Special Jury Prize, Dallas International Film Festival, 2017
Won, Jury Prize, Key West Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Cleveland International Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, 2017

PAULA - 3PM
2018-02-04 15:00 - 17:02
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Sunday, February 4, 3:00 pm
Directed by: Christian Schwochow
Biography/Drama, 14A for some nudity/sexual content, 123 min., German, French with English subtitles (France/Germany)

Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules. The exuberant 24-year-old woman rejects the conventional and explores her unique style. By marrying painter Otto Modersohn, she hopes to find a creative soulmate. He allows her to continue painting while assuming her duties as a good wife. However, five years of domesticity take its toll on Paula’s spirit, and she travels alone to modern Paris, where she studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Headstrong Paula is unstoppable: she embarks on a period that will become her most compelling; a long-awaited period of creative fulfilment and self-realization…

Awards:
Won, Best Cinematography, Bavarian Film Awards, 2017
Won, Best Production/Costume Design, German Film Awards, 2017

KEDI - 1PM
2018-02-04 13:00 - 14:20
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Sunday, February 4, 1:00 pm
Directed by: Ceyda Torun
Documentary, G, 80 min. Language: Turkish with English subtitles (Turkey/USA)

“A cat’s-eye view of the world that showcases both the warm-hearted people of this ancient Turkish city and the seamless integration of its felines into everyday life.” – Kathryn Laskaris, Toronto Star

“Gives us a synoptic vision of Istanbul as filtered through one of that ancient city’s most unique traits, the enormous population of quasi-domestic cats roaming its streets.” – Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending

Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they’ve wandered in and out of people’s lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, these animals live between two worlds – neither wild nor tame – and they bring joy and purpose to those people they choose to adopt. In Istanbul, cats are the mirrors to the people, allowing them to reflect on their lives in ways nothing else could.

Awards:
Won, Best First Documentary, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, 2017
Won, Most Compelling Living Subject, Critics Choice, Documentary Awards, 2017
Nominated, Allan King Documentary Award, Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, 2017
Nominated, CFCA Award for Best Documentary, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, 2017
Won, Best Family Film, Sidewalk Film Festival, 2016

TAKE EVERY WAVE - 7:30PM
2018-02-03 19:30 - 21:28
TAKE EVERY WAVE:
THE LIFE OF LAIRD HAMILTON – Buy Tickets Now!

Saturday, February 3, 7:30 pm
Directed by: Rory Kennedy
Documentary/Sport, PG language may offend, not recommended for young children, 118 min. (USA)

“This is Kennedy’s profile in courage, a film about the connection between the great man and the “incorrigible egomaniac.” For all the awesome surfing footage, Take Every Wave is a serious film about the death-or-glory attitude of an extreme athlete.” – Liam Lacey, Original Cin

“The line between dedication and addiction is a thin one, and … that line is even thinner for the surfer who’s the subject of this involving documentary.” – Mark Dujik, Mark Reviews Movies

This exciting film tracks the remarkable life and legendary career of big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton. Much admired by the public (though often disdained or ignored by the surf industry itself), Hamilton is a unique sports icon. He’s an athlete who has refused to compete professionally, yet has dominated big-wave surfing as no other figure has ever done. Transcending the surf genre, this in-depth portrait of a hard-charging athlete explores the fear, courage and ambition that push a man to greatness as well as the cost that comes with it. Threaded throughout is a revealing, deeply personal interview with Hamilton himself, as well conversations with the family members, friends, collaborators and detractors who know him best.

Awards:
Won, Most Compelling Living Subject, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, 2017 Nominated, Best Sports Documentary, Critics Choice Documentary Awards, 2017

BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY - 5:15M
2018-02-03 17:15 - 18:45
BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY – Buy Tickets Now!

Saturday, February 3, 5:15 pm
Written and Directed by: Alexandra Dean
Documentary/Biography, PG for mature content and nudity in a non-sexual context, 90 min. (USA)

“What makes “Bombshell” intriguing is not just Lamarr’s gift for invention, it’s also what a fiery individualist she was, someone who had no regrets about her eventful life (“You learn from everything”), not even its racy, tabloid elements.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“Recognition (and compensation) proved elusive in Lamarr’s lifetime, but in this marvelous documentary, a brilliant woman – “I’m a very simple, complicated person” – finally gets her due.” – Chuck Wilson, Village Voice

Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr was known as the world’s most beautiful woman – Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her iconic look. However, her arresting beauty and glamorous life stood in the way of her being given the credit she deserved as an ingenious inventor, whose pioneering work helped revolutionize modern communication.
Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking about her incredible life combined with intimate reflections from her children, closest friends, family and admirers, Bombshell (executive produced by Susan Sarandon, Michael Kantor, Regina Scully) finally gives Hedy Lamarr the chance to tell her own story.

Awards:
Won, Audience Award, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, 2017
Won, Excellence in Filmmaking Award, Nantucket Film Festival, 2017
Won, Audience Award, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, 2017
Won, Audience Award/Best Film, Scottsdale International Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Audience Favourite, Aspen Filmfest, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Dallas Video Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Jerusalem Film Festival, 2017
Won, Audience Award-Feature, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, 2017

BRIMSTONE & GLORY - 3:30PM
2018-02-03 15:30 - 16:37
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Saturday, February 3, 3:30 pm
Directed by: Viktor Jakovleski
Documentary, PG, 67 min.
Language: Spanish with English subtitles (Mexico/USA)

“Brimstone & Glory is community as catharsis, and you can’t stop staring in stupefied astonishment.” – Tim Grierson, Paste Magazine

“A movie that repays being seen on a big reflective screen, one on which the image is projected rather than one from which the image emanates.” – Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com

The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios (the patron saint of firework makers), conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. More than three quarters of Tultepec’s residents work in pyrotechnics, and the festival anchors a way of life built around the generations-old, homegrown business of making fireworks by hand. For the town’s citizens, this extraordinary event is explosive celebration and unrestrained delight… combined with genuine peril.

Awards:
Won, Special Mention, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, 2017
Won, Best Documentary Feature, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2017
Won, Special Citation, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, 2017
Won, Best Director/Best Picture, Austin Fantastic Fest, 2017

PAST LIFE - 1PM
2018-02-03 13:00 - 14:49
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Saturday, February 3, 1:00 pm
Written and Directed by: Avi Nesher
Drama, 14A for nudity and disturbing content, 109 min., Language: English and German, Polish, Hebrew with English subtitles (Israel/Poland)

“A striking and thought-provoking picture.” – Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com

“While so many films have examined the war and the Holocaust that took such an egregious toll on the Jewish community, Past Life looks at it from a novel perspective, examining the possible “crimes” committed by a survivor.” – Bruce Demara, Toronto Star

Based on actual events and set in the late 1970s, Past Life centers on the daughters of Holocaust survivors: combative liberal journalist Nana and her younger sister Sephi, a soprano and aspiring composer. After a performance in West Berlin, Sephi is accosted by an elderly Polish woman who angrily accuses her father of murder. Traumatized by the startling encounter, the sisters launch an investigation, attempting to discover what really happened to their father in Poland during the war. As guilty secrets and troubling revelations are dredged up, the story boldly charts dangerous emotional territory as Nana and Sephi unravel the shocking truth about their father’s murky wartime experiences.

Awards:
Nominated, Best Actress / Supporting Actress / Art Direction / Costume Design / Music, Israeli Film Academy, 2017

HUMAN FLOW - 7PM
2018-02-02 19:00 - 21:20
HUMAN FLOW – Buy Tickets Now!

Friday, February 2, 7:00 pm
Directed by: Ai Weiwei
Documentary, PG for mature themes including a disturbing image, 140 min. Language: English (Germany)

“The imagery encourages viewers to adopt a global perspective in considering the subject matter.” – Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

“Ai Weiwei has made something beautiful: Human Flow is neither indulgent nor pedantic, but clear-eyed in its view of the enormity of the crisis too vast for most of us to comprehend.” – Murray White, Toronto Star

Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches across the globe.

Awards:
Won, Courage, Bambi Awards, 2017
Won, 4 Awards, Venice Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Detroit Film Critic Society, 2017

PECKING ORDER - 4PM
2018-02-02 16:00 - 17:28
PECKING ORDER – Buy Tickets Now!

Friday, February 2, 4:00 pm
Sunday, February 4, 7:30 pm
Written and Directed by: Slavko Martinov
Documentary, PG, 88 min. (New Zealand)

“An absolutely hilarious and very pointed exploration of politics and culture on the smallest possible scale. And a lot of good-lookin’ chickens.” – Mary Ann Johanson, Flick Filosopher

“This is quirkily compulsive viewing.” – David Aldridge, Radio Times

“As feathers are ruffled by ego and envy, the film doubles as a surprisingly affecting fable of fun turning fowl.” – Simon Kinnear, Total Film

“A documentary about New Zealand’s leading chicken breeders may not immediately seize the imagination, but, like Best in Show, the mockumentary it often resembles, Slavko Martinov’s film is often hilarious.” – Ed Potton, Times (UK)

This feel good feather-ruffling flockumentary takes you into the distinctly Kiwi world of competitive poultry pageantry, inhabited by a group of understated, witty and likable chicken lovers hell-bent on victory at the New Zealand National Poultry Show.
This heart-warming film about the circle of life, power struggles and the need for progress, follows members of the Christchurch Poultry, Pigeon and Bantam Club struggling to peak at nationals while decades of club infighting threaten to tear their 148-year-old club apart. Who will ‘Rule the Roost’?

Awards:
Nominated, Best Documentary, Adelaide Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Documentary, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2017
Nominated, Best Foreign Documentary Trailer, Golden Trailer Awards, 2017
Nominated, People’s Choice Award – Best Documentary, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2017

In Search of Fellini - 7PM
2018-01-18 19:00 - 20:33
In Search of Fellini

Screening: Thursday, January 18, 2018 – 4pm, 7pm
Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie
Directed by: Taron Lexton
Cast: Ksenia Solo, Maria Bello and Mary Lynn Rajskub
Drama/Adventure, 14A for sexuality/nudity and language, 93 minutes (USA/Italy)

“Cinephiles should appreciate this nostalgic coming-of-age drama that finds its own modest niche while capturing the spirit of the legendary Italian filmmaker.” – Todd Jorgenson, Cinemalogue.com

Lucy (Ksenia Solo) has never kissed a boy, never had a job, and never really had friends. Her best friend is her mother Claire (Maria Bello), who has shielded her from all the bad in the world, including Claire’s own terminal illness. Claire’s sister, Kerri (Mary Lynn Rajskub), urges Claire to break her silence and tell Lucy the truth before it’s too late. Lucy leaps into adulthood and onto her Vespa to Cleveland for an ill-fated job interview. There, she stumbles into a bizarre and wonderful festival of the films of Federico Fellini, the great Italian director, where she sees his Oscar-winning La Strada – a movie that doesn’t have the happy ending she’s used to. In a burst of courage, she leaves her small-town home and sets off on a journey across Italy to find the filmmaker and unlock his mysterious enigma and her own.

Awards:
Won, Best Feature (USA), Best Director (Taron Lexton) and Best Actress (Ksenia Solo), Ferrara Film Festival, 2017

Film tickets: $10 for Adults, $8 for Seniors/Students

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In Search of Fellini - 4PM
2018-01-18 16:00 - 17:33

Tulipani - 7PM
2018-01-04 19:00, 2018-01-03 19:00
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Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
(Tulipani: Liefde, Eer en een Fiets)

Screening:
Wednesday, January 3 – 4pm, 7pm
Thursday, January 4 – 4pm, 7pm
Location: Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie

Directed by: Mike van Diem
Principle Cast: Ksenia Solo, Giancarlo Giannini, Gijs Naber, Lidia Vitale and Donatella Finocchiaro
Comedy/Drama, 14A, 90 minutes, Language: English/Dutch/Italian with English subtitles (Netherlands)

TULIPANI tells the story of a romantic Dutch farmer named Gauke (Gijs Naber) who after losing his farm during the floods of 1953 is determined to never ever have wet socks again. He cycles to the sizzling hot south of Italy to start a new life and ends up at the outskirts of a small village in Puglia. Due to his fairylike and miraculous tulip trade, his passionate love-life and his turbulent scuffles with the dubious local business practices, he becomes a living legend – to then suddenly disappear. Thirty years later, an Italian police inspector (Giancarlo Giannini) attempts to unravel the story, but struggles to distinguish fact from fiction. With the help of the young Canadian Anna (Ksenia Solo) he discovers what truly happened.

Award:
Won, Best International Film/Festival Prize, Terra di Siena Film Festival, 2017

Tulipani - 4PM
2018-01-04 16:00, 2018-01-03 16:00

Don't Talk To Irene - 7PM
2017-12-21 19:00
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Don’t Talk To Irene

Screening: Thursday, December 21, 2017 – 4pm, 7pm
Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie
Written and Directed by: Pat Mills
Cast: Michelle McLeod, Geena Davis, Bruce Gray, Anastasia Phillips, Scott Thompson, Deborah Grover
Comedy, 14A – coarse language, some sexual content, bullying, 90 minutes (Canada)

“There’s a warm-hearted tale here suffused with wit and a positive and life-affirming message about having the confidence to achieve your goals in the face of adversity.” – Bruce Demara, Toronto Star
“From first tentative rehearsals to road trip, you can see where the “let’s put on a show” gumption is going. But the newly empowered teenage choreographer and her ragtag troupe ride their own giddy momentum.” – Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter

When Irene gets suspended, she must endure two weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she secretly signs up the senior residents to audition for a dance-themed reality show to prove that you don’t need to be physically “perfect” to be perfectly awesome.

Awards:
Won, Audience Award, Austin Film Festival, 2017
Won, Jury Award, Austin Film Festival, 2017

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Don't Talk To Irene - 4PM
2017-12-21 16:00

Lost In Paris - 7PM
2017-12-07 19:00
Lost In Paris (Paris pieds nus)

Screening:
December 6, 2017 – 4pm, 7pm
December 7, 2017 – 4pm, 7pm
Location: Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St. W., Barrie

Written and Directed by: Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon
Principle Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard and Frédéric Meert
Comedy/slapstick, PG – language may offend, not recommended for young children, 83 minutes, Language: English/French with English subtitles (France/Belgium)

“LOST IN PARIS does for slapstick what LA LA LAND does for musicals… Resurrecting the spirit of classic slapstick… mining territory ranging from Charlie Chaplin to Jacques Tati”
– Indiewire
“Always inventive… defiantly marching to a different drummer than anyone else at the moment…”
– The Hollywood Reporter
“A comedy of the absurd that’s always entertaining”
– Wall Street Journal

Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond. When Fiona’s (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (delightfully portrayed by Academy Award®-nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone. Replete with the amazing antics and intricately choreographed slapstick that has come to define their work, this film is a wondrously fun and hectic tale of peculiar people finding love while lost in the City of Lights.

Awards:
Won, Rare Pearl Award, Denver International Film Festival, 2016
Won, Audience Award, Mill Valley Film Festival, 2016
Won, Audience Award Honorary mention, Philadelphia Film Festival, 2016

Lost In Paris - 4PM
2017-12-07 16:00
