Word: egoyan
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...Canada as an important national cinema. This country of 33 million has left less of an artistic footprint than, say, Hong Kong (6 million population) in the 80s or Sweden (4 million) in the Ingmar Bergman years. The provinces have produced a few notable directors - David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan from Ontario, Denys Arcand from Quebec, Guy Maddin from Manitoba - but their careers date back to the 60s, 70s or 80s. Other Canadians, like directors Norman Jewison and Paul Haggis and a slew of comedy stars, have packed their bags and emigrated to the dominant movie culture...
...make much of an impression. At the end, the truth of the fateful evening is revealed in a “C.S.I”-style series of flashbacks and neat summation, which leaves the audience missing the substance to which this plot had been leading. Director/screenwriter Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”) deserves credit for shooting “Where The Truth Lies” prettily enough and pacing it well enough that we don’t realize until the credits roll that it was nothing more than a straightforward detective/reporter movie. With that...
...said of the process: you immediately dismiss most of the films, leaving a half-dozen or so to fight over. By then a few strong personalities have emerged in the Jury's debates. In 1996, over the objections of the majority, two or three members, including director Atom Egoyan, pushed through a Jury Prize citing fellow Canadian David Cronenberg's Crash for "audacity." This year, a couple of those Type-A personalities are said to be clashing. A real tug-of-hair may be in progress. When the Jury comes on stage one by one, check for missing tufts...
...trash on the Cote d'Azur, with two quirky North American directors offering analyses of death-love in the cult of showbiz. Today's prestige items: Gus Van Sant's Last Days, an imagining of the death of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, and Where the Truth Lies, Atom Egoyan's film of a murder case involving a comedy duo not unlike Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Because Van Sant, from the U.S., and Egoyan, the Canadian, are revered for their elaborate, eccentric visions, we figured we would not get simple tabloid tattle. We came expecting an upscale approach that...
...Firth and Bacon never demonstrate camaraderie, let alone comic finesse. Lohmann plays the investigatrix as a decadent but dewy Nancy Drew. So convincing as a 14-year-old in the Ridley Scott Matchstick Men, she is incompetent here. And Egoyan shows that, when he's not pursuing his own fascinating demons, he's subpar as a director for hire...