Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)Tuesday September 21st, 9:25pm, Park Lane 7 A short while and walk down Park Lane’s carpeted corridor separates the screenings of Trigger, a fictional film, and Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque), a biopic/fantasy based on the life of the in/famous French singer. But the two films connect across cinematic and geographic distances. Thematically, the Canadian and French movies both delve into duality. In Trigger Vic and Kat form the duality. They are the guitarist and singer respectively from a now-defunct indie rock band. Though Trigger broke up long ago, its existence as a creative entity, a unity of their
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A Trigger response
TriggerTuesday September 21st, 7:10pm, Park Lane 4 Built into its very name, rock ‘n’ roll is a duality. Two kinds of energy meet and intermingle. A single force forms and reforms. Point and counterpoint; counterpoint becomes point and vice versa. In that way, rock ‘n’ roll resembles life. It is life. (I can’t imagine my life so far, and to come, my life with my wife Sue, without the thought, wakefulness and beauty the music gives me daily.) The duo of Daniel MacIvor (writer) and Bruce McDonald (director) deliver a film about life, some of its interconnected and universal concerns,
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Full Atlantic Film Festival lineup unveiled
Bruce McDonald’s Trigger, starring Molly Parker, Tracy Wright and Don McKellar. On Tuesday, the Atlantic Film Festival revealed the rest of its schedule, and we managed to drag our sweaty fingers across the keyboard to pick out a few early favourites. For those who like to be the first to see big commercial films, there’s […]
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Atlantic Film Festival line-up: Cdn and Atlantic highlights
Rock ‘n’ roll with Trigger’s Tracy Wright and Molly Parker. Highlights from the Atlantic Film Festival‘s Atlantic and Canadian film programs are out, and nothing has made me feel this patriotic since Douglas Coupland’s clothing line for Roots. The Atlantic Gala film on September 17 is Chaz Thorne’s Whirligig, written by Michael Amo and starring […]