Pros: Teenage actor Troy Veinotte. Cons: Ending wrapped up way too tidy.
When you think about the movies that I watch (and if you know anything about this movie), you're probably scratching your head wondering what would even possess me to rent it.
I have no explanation except this - I've been feeling very...
Pros: Entertainingly eccentric characters; good performances; black humor; interesting themes; good visuals and Irish fiddlin' Cons: Lack of full control of temporal shifts and style changes
Continuing my survey of some top Canadian films, I turn next to the debut film of American-born, Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald. Historical Background: Thom Fitzgerald was born in New Rochelle, New York but has done all his filmmaking in ...
Pros: Canadian flick, balance of comedy and drama, intense realism sometimes tongue-in-cheek. Cons: Disturbing moments on the drama side, but preferred over the blatant violence produced in Hollywood.
Indeed The Hanging Garden is a film full of color and richness as the camera captures both the drama and humour of an extremely dysfunctional - but all too real - modern day family.
Filmed in broken sequences, Director Thom Fitzgerald...
Pros: Thought provoking, deep, makes you think about what life was like forthe characters Cons: confusing at times. Not a 'fun' movie.
I watched this movie because it was a requirement for an english clas I took - Gender and Sexuality in Film. We watched it, we took copious notes, and we analyzed it to death. But I'll say this much. Of all the movies we watched, this one needed the...
Pros: Excellent screenplay, centered performances Cons: A little soap-operatic and overblown at times
The winner of the 1997 Toronto Film Festival and a multiple Genie Award nominee, THE HANGING GARDEN is one of the most thoughtful films of the decade. With wildly original flashback sequences (that remain on view when we jump into the present), we're...
Pros: Intelligent, emotionally insightful writing and acting Cons: The writer might have been served better by another director
When a 25 year-old gay man, known as Sweet William (Chris Leavins), comes home - after an absence of ten years - to Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the wedding of his sister (Kerry Fox) to his childhood buddy (Joel S. Keller), he realizes he's been a...
Pros: Beautifully dark and heartbreaking. Also sinisterly funny. Cons: None
THE HANGING GARDEN: Dark comedy/drama. It is amazing that writer/director Thom Fitzgerald’s "The Hanging Garden" is so beautifully dark and heartbreaking while also managing to be sinisterly funny. When Sweet William (Chris Leavins) returns...
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