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Matthew RankinArgumento:
Matthew RankinCâmara:
Vincent BironElenco:
Dan Beirne, Catherine St-Laurent, Mikhaïl Ahooja, Seán Cullen, Louis Negin, Trevor Anderson, Emmanuel Schwartz, Richard Jutras, Kee Chan, Sarianne Cormier (mais)Streaming (1)
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Toronto, 1899. O jovem aspirante a político Mackenzie King sonha em se tornar o primeiro-ministro do Canadá. Em sua jornada na busca pelo poder, ele enfrentará a mãe controladora, um governador-geral belicista e o idealismo utópico de um místico quebequense. Enquanto isso, King se divide entre o amor de uma soldado britânica e uma enfermeira franco-canadense e, aos poucos, entrega-se a um fetiche obsessivo por calçados femininos. Quando sua corrida pela liderança do país culminar em um confronto épico entre o bem e o mal, King aprenderá que a decepção pode ser a única maneira de sobreviver ao século 20. (São Paulo IFF)
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This biographical film about the formative years of the most important Canadian prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, is impressive in how it essentially sets out on a path that is anything but standard. Instead of a credible retro setting and fidelity to facts, it gives viewers an insanely absurd dive into a dreamlike subconsciousness shot in a style inspired by German expressionism and other avant-garde trends from the early days of cinema and beyond, where surreal symbolism is melded with manifested Freudian anxieties. Some domestic conservative viewers may find The Twentieth Century to be a tasteless iconoclastic provocation. Despite its seeming randomness, however, it is a surprisingly conceptual work that, with its deviation from the norm and the crackpot nature of individual scenes, leads viewers to start finding out the facts about the central historic figure and the whole phantasmagorically depicted time for themselves. Not only does this film provide such impetus for self-study that the creators of conventional biographical dramas could only dream about, but it also shows that WLMK was a rather bizarre personality, despite his public image.
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