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The coming-of-age (and out-of-the-closet) story gets an imaginative twist by writer-director Stephen Dunn. Winner of the Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2015 Festival and selected as one of the ten best Canadian films of the year at the 2016 Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival, Closet Monster is ceaselessly inventive in its chronicle of an East Coast teen wrestling with his sexuality and learning to find his own way in life. High-school student and aspiring special-effects makeup artist Oscar Madly (Connor Jessup, Blackbird) needs out: out of the Newfoundland town that is stifling his budding creativity, out of his restrictive home life, and out of the closet, where he has fearfully remained after witnessing a brutal hate crime as a young boy. While he finds much-needed support from his best friend Gemma (Sofia Banzhaf ) and his pet hamster, Buffy (who talks to him via the voice of the great Isabella Rossellini, Enemy), Oscar is haunted by horrifying visions of the consequences of revealing his homosexuality — a fear that is compounded by the presence of his increasingly judgmental and erratic father (Aaron Abrams, TV’s Hannibal, Republic of Doyle). When Oscar meets the handsome Wilder (TIFF Rising Star Aliocha Schneider, Ville-Marie), he is immediately attracted and utterly terrified. With his fantasies becoming darker and ever more vividly real, Oscar finds that he must break free of the chains that bind him and live a life that is true to who he really is. Impressing his unique sensibility on every frame of his remarkably accomplished debut feature, Newfoundland native Dunn establishes himself as one of Canada's brightest young talents. Striking, sometimes shocking and often unexpectedly funny, Closet Monster is simply a stunner.
CANADA, 2015
English
90 minutes
Rated 14-A
$9.50 at the door; $8 with Film Buff Pass
"Connor Jessup wonderfully inhabits the teenage Oscar, who observes others while trying to find himself." — The New York Times
"Dunn’s work is a far more fantastical feat, one that mixes slow-burn drama with a welcome Cronenbergian sensibility. Oh, and Isabella Rossellini plays a talking hamster. Just try to top that." — The Globe and Mail
[email protected]
(902) 532-7704
The coming-of-age (and out-of-the-closet) story gets an imaginative twist by writer-director Stephen Dunn. Winner of the Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2015 Festival and selected as one of the ten best Canadian films of the year at the 2016 Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival, Closet Monster is ceaselessly inventive in its chronicle of an East Coast teen wrestling with his sexuality and learning to find his own way in life. High-school student and aspiring special-effects makeup artist Oscar Madly (Connor Jessup, Blackbird) needs out: out of the Newfoundland town that is stifling his budding creativity, out of his restrictive home life, and out of the closet, where he has fearfully remained after witnessing a brutal hate crime as a young boy. While he finds much-needed support from his best friend Gemma (Sofia Banzhaf ) and his pet hamster, Buffy (who talks to him via the voice of the great Isabella Rossellini, Enemy), Oscar is haunted by horrifying visions of the consequences of revealing his homosexuality — a fear that is compounded by the presence of his increasingly judgmental and erratic father (Aaron Abrams, TV’s Hannibal, Republic of Doyle). When Oscar meets the handsome Wilder (TIFF Rising Star Aliocha Schneider, Ville-Marie), he is immediately attracted and utterly terrified. With his fantasies becoming darker and ever more vividly real, Oscar finds that he must break free of the chains that bind him and live a life that is true to who he really is. Impressing his unique sensibility on every frame of his remarkably accomplished debut feature, Newfoundland native Dunn establishes himself as one of Canada's brightest young talents. Striking, sometimes shocking and often unexpectedly funny, Closet Monster is simply a stunner.
CANADA, 2015
English
90 minutes
Rated 14-A
$9.50 at the door; $8 with Film Buff Pass
"Connor Jessup wonderfully inhabits the teenage Oscar, who observes others while trying to find himself." — The New York Times
"Dunn’s work is a far more fantastical feat, one that mixes slow-burn drama with a welcome Cronenbergian sensibility. Oh, and Isabella Rossellini plays a talking hamster. Just try to top that." — The Globe and Mail
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Pricing: Free
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
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902-532-7704
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