CANADA: C.R.A.Z.Y. 2005

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Stars: Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Jean-Marc Vallée
Release date: Quebec - 27 May 2005
Length: 127 mins


The other day I was wondering to myself, 'where are all the Canadian films?'. Is their industry as crap as ours? Do they make stupid low budget comedies that aren't funny, so therefore no-one goes to see them, therefore less films get made, therefore we end up with a rather pathetic state of affairs. Surely not. I think I saw only one last year & just like this it was also French-Canadian. I can't get the friggin trailer to run.. Aaargh! You try.

Synopsis
It's a story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from all his brothers, but desperate to fit in. During the next 20 years, life takes Zac on a surprising and unexpected journey that ultimately leads him to accept his true nature and, even more importantly, leads his father to love him for who he really is. A mystical fable about a modern-day Christ-like figure, "C.R.A.Z.Y" exudes the beauty, the poetry and the madness of the human spirit in all its contradictions.

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