Stars: Walid Jabri, ‘Spark’ Patty Keach, Joey Mac Intosh, Denis Moreno, Stéphane Picotte, Ryan Stick, Karen Wan | Written and Directed by Vincenzo Nappi
The popular stereotype of the nice, polite Canadian is, like that of the overly gracious Southerner in the US, an artifice that quickly vanishes once you spend some time in either place. People are people, and they aren’t that different no matter where you go.
Oh… Canada, a six-minute short from writer/director Vincenzo Nappi that made its debut at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival, is an attempt to subvert that image. You can’t tell that at first, with its semi-animated views of prairies full of bison, woodlands, an anthropomorphized family of beavers and other pastoral delights.
And then an apartment complex erupts Monty Python style from a peaceful meadow, and the film’s tone begins to change. But it’s when O Canada...
The popular stereotype of the nice, polite Canadian is, like that of the overly gracious Southerner in the US, an artifice that quickly vanishes once you spend some time in either place. People are people, and they aren’t that different no matter where you go.
Oh… Canada, a six-minute short from writer/director Vincenzo Nappi that made its debut at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival, is an attempt to subvert that image. You can’t tell that at first, with its semi-animated views of prairies full of bison, woodlands, an anthropomorphized family of beavers and other pastoral delights.
And then an apartment complex erupts Monty Python style from a peaceful meadow, and the film’s tone begins to change. But it’s when O Canada...
- 7/31/2024
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
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