Word: schiedabl
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...working-class individuals. Unfortunately, filmmaker Don Shebib seems to have had little on his mind except his low-budget, and little to communicate but a warm feeling towards his Canadian environs. He has carried dramatic restraint to a fault, earnestness to dullness. He has, in short, made what Peter Schiedabl called "a dumb film about dumb people"; but where that reviewer could still praise the film for capturing the texture of a hand-to-mouth existence, I cannot. Shebib simply hasn't made it interesting: his insights are only tangential to his subject matter...
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