Screening Dates
  • September 6, 2017 8:40
Free Admission

“Makes John Cassavetes’s Faces look like early Doris Day.”

Time

Allan King’s classic (and controversial) fly-on-the-wall portrait of a marriage in crisis is a landmark of direct-cinema documentary. It captures the troubled relationship of Toronto couple Billy and Antoinette Edwards, upwardly-mobile former bohemians who—apparently uninhibited by the presence of King’s film crew—squabble about everything: sex, money, the car, their son Bogart, even how to use a vacuum. How much of this conflict is being ​“acted out” for the benefit of the camera is an issue raised by all of King’s ground-breaking, boundary-bending ​“actuality dramas.” The film was shot by noted cinematographer Richard Leiterman—like King, an alumnus of CBC Vancouver.