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Director Bruce McDonald and screenwriter Don McKeller teamed up with noted indie rock band Broken Social Scene for this fusion of music and romantic comedy - drama. Caroline (Georgina Reilly) is a student spending a few days in Toronto who ends up staying with Bruno (Greg Calderone) an old friend from the town where they grew up. Bruno has long been infatuated with Caroline and he can hardly believe his good luck when he wakes up in bed with her. However the timing of his romantic breakthrough is flawed since Caroline will be leaving for France the next day. On her last night in town Caroline s all - time favorite band Broken Social Scene will be playing a big show and she can t think of a better way to spend the evening. However the show s venue has been moved at the last minute and her friend Blake (Kjartan Hewitt) can no longer get her passes for the concert as promised. If Bruno wants to truly win Caroline s heart he has to find a way to get her the tickets she s dreaming of. Director McDonald incorporated footage shot by amateur filmmakers of scene of Toronto in the summer into This Movie is Broken s staged scenes and concert material to help give the picture a more naturalistic feel; it received its world premiere at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. Discs: 1. Release Date: Oct 05 2010. Movie Details: Canadian. Starring: Broken Social Scene Greg Calderone Kjartan Hewitt Georgina Reilly. Composer: Broken Social Scene. Director: Bruce McDonald. Director of Photography: John Price. Screenwriter: Don McKellar.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A fantastic concert film with a beautifully interwoven fictional storyline,
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This review is from: This Movie Is Broken [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
In the accompanying making-of video on the Blu Ray release of "This Movie is Broken", director Bruce MacDonald allows a candid insight... "since my first film - this is the film I've been trying to make." Upon a chance meeting at a Toronto cafe, MacDonald (whose has previously embraced the rock n'roll film idiom with Hard Core Logo) met with Broken Social Scene co-founder Kevin Drew and concocted a scheme to film the band at what would be one of their most revered live shows to date. MacDonald conscripted his long time collaborator Don McKellar to pen a fictional tale that would revolve around the show, and the resulting 20 page script spawned this wonderfully stripped down hybrid of a concert film and romantic drama. And for Torontonians - their home-town is finally given a starring role (as opposed to the countless times it has served as a stand-in for more exotic big city locales).Shot during 2009's Toronto garbage-worker's strike, footage from the concert is interpolaced with the story of two somewhat love-struck hipsters Bruno (Greg Calderone) and Caroline (Georgina Reilly) as they spend the day along Queen street and other inner city haunts. Having had a crush on her since grade school, Bruno has managed to find Caroline still around the morning after their first romantic evening, one of her last in town before heading back to grad school in Paris. He sets out to acquire tickets to that evening's Broken Social Scene show at the Harbourfront Centre, only to find out that it's a free concert. Feeling the need to up-the-ante, he fast talks their way back-stage, where they see the full glory of the 20 member BSS collective up close. The band was on fire that night, and the concert footage was captured brilliantly by mutiple cameras (including 6 "red" HD cameras... so the Blu-Ray format is worth the while). The cinematography for the storyline segments is dreamy and new wave in fashion - recalling the jump cuts of Godard's "Breathless". The unexpected ending concludes a nice piece of storytelling by McKellar. This is a fantastic film: the rambunctiousness of BSS is well displayed, the beauty of Toronto's urban complexity is given a just deserved spotlight, and the collaborative power of Bruce MacDonald and Don McKeller is once again unleashed and in full effect. Highly recommended - and if you are a fan of Broken Social Scene you couldn't ask for a more appropriate way to convey their live show for theatrical/home viewing.
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