canadian
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Gerontophilia
Nothing is ever what you expect it to be in the movies. None more so in this new one by edgy Canadian writer/director Bruce La Bruce whose art films usually cross over to pornography on some level. Given the combination of La Bruce’s reputation and the controversial subject matter, this one started out against all…
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Tru Love
When 60-year-old Alice comes to Toronto six months after becoming a widow, her daughter Suzanne a lawyer is too busy at work to be home to greet her mother. She asks her unemployed friend Tru to step in at the last minute to look after Alice but then is shocked when she later arrives home…
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Outrageous
During the opening credits we see a young woman trudging through snowy streets dressed in her bedtime attire and clutching a large scrapbook which she keeps looking at time to time. The childish drawings are her clue to tracking down the apartment of her best friend Robin which miraculously she manages to do. The year…
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Alfred & Jakobine
When a young pretty Danish girl was broke and stranded in Japan she asked a handsome American seamen in the Port in Yokohama for help, and a couple of bottles of Sake later, she was smuggled aboard his ship that was setting sail for Casablanca. A few days into the voyage they had fallen madly…
