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Mystery, Murder & Misogyny

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Millénium: Le Film, Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin & Beaubien

by Leonard Eichel
28.07.2009

There is a fine balance to achieve between a straight thriller where action is the lead and characters secondary, and a serious film where character is more important than plot or action. When a director manages to slide up the middle, the result is captivating, engrossing and scrumptiously entertaining. Millénium: Le Film, based on Steig [...]

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Escorts Are People, Too

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THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE

by Dru Jeffries
08.07.2009

The sexually-savvy people of Montreal will surely already be familiar with “the girlfriend experience,” an arrangement by which a higher-class escort indulges her patron not only with sex, but also with dinner, movies, chit-chat — in short, with actual (fake) human interaction — for a not inconsiderable fee. It’s this tension between the real and [...]

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The Objects Of Our Desire

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Objectified, Cinema du Parc

by Sarah Fletcher
03.07.2009

Karim Rashid wears hot pink glasses, thick rims glowing under the glare of the light. “There were always objects in my life that I was really in love with. When I was depressed as a teenager, I would just look at the alarm clock next to my bed and feel better instantly,” he says. His [...]

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Curb Your Nihilism

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WHATEVER WORKS, AMC Forum 22

by Dru Jeffries
01.07.2009

In many ways, Whatever Works is your prototypical Woody Allen comedy. It features (1) a schlubby and neurotic Jewish man who is unlucky with love and lucky with witticisms, (2) a love triangle, (3) direct address to the camera, (4a) references to classic Hollywood films, (4b) a Groucho Marx reference. So far so good. The [...]

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