The 2017 Canadian film class at the 2017 Windsor International Film Festival was a little light in numbers and impact on the screen. Outside of Meditation Park, none were outstanding though there were some good Canadian films.
There are some crossover potential films such as Meditation Park, Don't Talk to Irene, Eye on Juliet, and on a zombie level, The Ravenous.
We are trying something a bit different with the reviews this season. Since we got quite a lot of feedback telling us our reviews were too short, we decided to expand the length of reviews. Few people on the Internet want to read 4,000 words in a setting.
Below this story and the other 2 stories are links to the other stories. You can read all the feature reviews or the documentary reviews or get access to both.
2017 Windsor International Film Festival preview
2017 TIFF Canadian film wrapup
TIFF 2017 preview
TIFF 2017 Canadian films preview
CanadianCrossing.com film reviews
CanadianCrossing.com film coverage
We mentioned 3 films in the preview that will not get reviews: My Enemy, My Brother; Shiners; and The Little Hours. I saw The Little Hours, which had no visible Canadian presence. The film was pretty good; you will love the film if you like the people in the film.
Due to conflicts, I did not get to see My Enemy, My Brother and Shiners. The former film might have had a slight Canadian presence while the latter didn't appear to have any Canadian visibility.
Radio Canada in Windsor ran films outdoors on its extensive lawn on Friday night of the festival. They showed what people told me was a Quebecois children's classic La Guerre des Tuques | The Dog Who Stopped the War from 1984. The original Bon Cop, Bad Cop was the late film. I saw the latter half of the first film and the first half hour of the second film.
The initial film did not have subtitles, running purely in French. This was not a film with a huge plot. I was entertained even if I couldn't follow the words too well. They had English subtitles for every piece of dialogue in the second film.
There was plenty of chocolate chaud (hot), popcorn, coffee, and heat lamps. I got a warm reception from people who recognized me from being at the festival.
There was something cool to watching Canadian films en Francaise within sight of the United States.
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