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From a technical standpoint, Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas' The Oxbow Cure is brilliant; a gorgeous and hypnotic movie that relies almost exclusively on the breathtaking scenery, the music and the wordless performance of lead actress Claudia Dey to push it along. What I can't quite figure out is what the bloody point of it is.

As the film opens, Lena is packing up her home in the city and saying goodbye to her friends. She's leaving behind her busy life to hide and suffer alone in a cabin at the edge of a lake and for most of the movie's running time, that's exactly what she does. She exercises, she looks our the window, she takes photos of her surroundings and she simply sits and waits for the illness to take over. It sounds dull and for the most part it is. As beautiful as [Continued ...]...

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Every cinephile's favourite producer/distributor is at it again: Harvey Weinstein plans to axe 20 minutes from Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer. Critic and programmer Tony Rayns had this to say:

"The Weinstein Company people have told Bong that their aim is to make sure the film 'will be understood by audiences in Iowa ... and Oklahoma.' Effectively, the notorious Hollywood executive believes the American mid-west is too stupid for Snowpiercer, a movie which essentially chronicles the journey of a few people at the back of a train who stage a revolt and proceed, in a straight line, towards the front. Leaving aside the issue of what Weinstein thinks of its audience, it seems to say the least anomalous that the rest of the English-speaking world has to be dragged down to the presumed level of American mid-west hicks."

According to the "acting" page on Vincent Gallo's website, it appears the...

Canadian directing duo Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis generating a good bit of buzz with their 2011 debut Amy George at the Toronto International Film Festival and the duo return this year with their sophomore effort, The Oxbow Cure, about to open in limited theatrical release here in Canada.A young woman retreats to a lonely cabin in the woods in order to wrestle with her demons and the debilitating ailment that plagues her, in this riveting, atmospheric and gorgeously photographed portrait of isolation by Toronto filmmakers Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis.This promises good things for fans of those films that blur the line between arthouse, experimental and genre cinema with the freshly released trailer showcasing gorgeous cinematography and carefully closed shots while favoring mood and...

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