The Twentieth Century | IFFO
Ottawa Art Gallery
50 Mackenzie King Bridge, Ottawa, ON K1N 0C5, Canada
Ontario
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Description
2019 | 90 minutes | Canada | English / Anglais
Director / Réalisateur : Matthew Rankin
Winner of the Best Canadian First Feature Award at last September’s Toronto International Film Festival, Matthew Rankin’s freewheeling funhouse mirror biopic The Twentieth Century explores the overheated, melodramatic phantasmagoria of Canada’s weirdest Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King. Following ‘Willy’ as he struggles to win the Liberal leadership, to wiggle out from under his domineering mother, and to overcome his intense erotic attraction to footwear, The Twentieth Century tells the tale of ambition in a politically fractured country trying to climb out of its colonial playpen into fully fledged adult nationhood. This “…brilliantly conjured…Heritage Minute from hell…” (TIFF 2019) is an extraordinary achievement in indie filmmaking, from its luminous artificial sets to its startling animated sequences to its deeply subversive look at political power in Canada. With its echoes of Guy Maddin, Wes Anderson, German Expressionism, and Soviet Montage, Rankin’s film is a delirious cinematic delight, an utterly original re-imagining of Canada’s history. You’ll never see Mackenzie King, or Canada, the same way again. Here at IFFO we say: Matthew Rankin for Prime Minister!- Tom McSorley
Director in attendance / Réalisateur présent
Preceded by / précédé par Docking by / par Trevor Anderson
Stay after the screening for a directors Q&A.
https://www.iffo.ca/the-twentieth-century
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Start:
2020-03-27T20:45:00-04:00
End:
2020-03-27T22:19:00-04:00
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