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TheatreOne's Fringe Flicks 2011-12 Season

Nanaimo & North Vancouver Island

Sun. February 5th, 2012 – Sun. April 1st, 2012
Sunday Showtimes: 1, 4 & 7 pm Monday Showtime: 7 pm

TheatreOne’s Fringe Flicks announces the last three films in the 2012 season: A Separation (Feb 19-20), Edwin Boyd (Mar. 4-5) and Monsieur Lazhar (Apr. 1-2).


A Separation is “a subtle and gripping examination of Iran’s social divide, religious traditions and justice program, Asghar Farhadi’s portrayal of the break-up of a marriage has won virtually universal praise from critics at the annual cinema showcase.” – David Lawson, phbeta.com

Transcending cultural and religious barriers to present a fascinating portrait of contemporary Iran, A Separation is Asghar Farhadi’s Divorce, Persian Style. In any film where a character has to call a religious hotline to ask if her professional duties are consistent with her beliefs, you know the devil is in the details. And so it is that Farhadi delivers his best work to date, a maze of narrative intrigue and complex emotion in which everyone is both innocent and guilty, depending on where you’re standing.

Edwin Boyd is not your ordinary folk hero. The story of this notorious Canadian bank robber is rooted in loss, trauma and frustra¬tion — elements that all rise to the surface in Scott Speedman’s charismatic performance as our eponymous antihero, the man who became postwar Toronto’s public enemy number one.

The bulk of this vibrant first feature from writer/director Nathan Morlando spans seven years, from Eddie’s return from duty in the Second World War to his ultimate arrest in 1952. Dismayed by public indif¬ference toward veterans, humiliated by his inability to provide for his children and his wife Doreen (Kelly Reilly), and seeing only disappointment in the face of his policeman father (Brian Cox), Eddie resorts to unlaw¬ful activity. But what start as friendly and flirtatious bank robberies, performed by a dandy wearing thick makeup, evolve over time — and with experience — into a career not unlike that of Clyde Barrow or Butch Cassidy, in which crime and love mix with explosive results.

The last film of the season is another Canadian feature film, Monsieur Lazhar is an exploration of how adults speak to children about issues they'd rather not confront themselves, Philippe Falardeau's nuanced and beautiful Monsieur Lazhar won Best Canadian Feature prize at the Festival in 2011. The film's emotional impact is made all the more powerful by its deceptively simple style. From the team that produced last year's Oscar nominee Incendies.

One of Quebec's finest young filmmakers returns to Canada's Top Ten with a luminous and heartbreaking exploration of how adults speak to children about issues they themselves would rather not confront. When an elementary school teacher commits suicide, her class and the entire community is shaken to the core. No one wants to talk about it save her replacement, Bachir Lazhar (Fellag), an Algerian immigrant seeking political asylum.

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