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addictivecontradiction · 2 months

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Born to be blue, 2015

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saturdaynightmatinee · 3 months

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: Brick Mansions

Año: 2014

Duración: 90 min

País: Francia

Dirección: Camille Delamarre

Guion: Luc Besson, Bibi Naceri

Música: Marc Bell

Fotografía: Christophe Collette

Reparto: Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA, Robert Maillet, Carlo Rota, Kalinka Petrie, Bruce Ramsay, Andreas Apergis, Kwasi Songui, Ayisha Issa

Productora: Brick Mansions Productions Inc, Europa Corp

Género: Action; Crime: Thriller

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innermuse24 · 10 months

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Games which Piqued my Interest List (1 of ?)

1. Dark Pictures Anthology Collection

Plot Summaries: (SPOILERS ALERT IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED THE GAMES)

- The Man of Medan:

Man of Medan is presented as an unfinished story in the possession of the omnipresent Curator (Pip Torrens), who requests the player's assistance in completing it.

A prologue, set after World War II, details an American warship in Manchuria being overrun by ghostly apparitions, causing the death of the crew.

In the present day, brothers Alex (Kareem Alleyne) and Brad (Chris Sandiford) are preparing for a diving expedition into the South Pacific Ocean alongside Alex's girlfriend, Julia (Arielle Palik), Julia's brother, Conrad (Shawn Ashmore), and the ship's skipper, Fliss (Ayisha Issa). Alex and Julia seek out to find a World War II wreck plane rumoured to have crashed. Meanwhile, a group of fishermen crash into Fliss' boat, the Duke of Milan. After the expedition group celebrate, the fishermen, led by Olson (Kwasi Songui), ambush the boat and take the protagonists hostage; Brad may optionally remain in hiding. Conrad attempts to steal the fishermen's speedboat, which he can either successfully do so and flee, remain captured, or be killed in the attempt. Olson discovers the coordinates of a seemingly hidden treasure named Manchurian Gold and seeks out to find it with the Duke crew in his captivity.

The Duke crashes into the SS Ourang Medan, the freighter featured in the prologue, which the fishermen board, taking the Duke of Milan's distributor cap to prevent the crew from fleeing. The protagonists immediately plan to regain the distributor cap and escape. The group is split after Fliss is recaptured and Brad is either too captured or leaves the Duke and re-joins her, while the others secretly follow. Both groups begin to witness unknown threats, optionally resulting in deaths: Fliss searches the ship's lower deck, potentially alongside Brad, and locates the Manchurian Gold, a leaking chemical substance; Conrad, if he remained captured, pursues Fliss and is pursued in turn by a female nurse; and Alex and Julia are attacked by Olson and a hallucinogenic version of Alex.

The surviving protagonists regroup and head towards the radio room to request extraction. They contact the military, optionally revealing their co-ordinates and the ship name. The group then again splits, with one team heading further into the generator room and the other remaining with the radio. The team heading to the engine room successfully reactivate the power and surmise that Manchurian Gold was actually a hallucinogenic bioweapon developed during World War II to induce hallucinations on victims.

As Olson pursues, one of the protagonists at the radio decides to investigate after hearing a gunshot. If Alex stayed behind, he goes down with whomever is with him and finds Olson dead before being attacked by rats and optionally destroying the distributor cap and/or dying. If Alex did not stay in the radio room, only one protagonist will investigate. This protagonist is forced into a fight with Olson, with the distributor cap either being recovered or destroyed in the onslaught. If at least one of the generator protagonists survived, they emerge and send a cargo door crashing down on Olson to kill him, with the other protagonist either escaping or being crushed also. Otherwise, Olson kills the radio protagonist before succumbing to a heart attack.

The surviving group members reunite on the outer deck of the ship, with the overall outcome depending on the fate of the group via player choice, whether the Duke of Milan's distributor cap was saved or destroyed, and whether the military was called for assistance alongside whether the ship name was disclosed.

- Little Hope:

Little Hope is presented as an unfinished story in the possession of the omnipresent Curator (Pip Torrens), who requests the player's assistance in completing it.

In the present day, a bus driver is taking four students, Andrew (Will Poulter), Angela (Ellen David), Taylor (Caitlyn Sponheimer), and Daniel (Kyle Bailey), and their professor, John (Alex Ivanovici), on a class trip, before crashing after being forced to take a detour through the ghost town of Little Hope. The story then jumps back to a prologue set in 1972 regarding the Clark family: the parents, Anne (David) and James (Ivanovici), and their four adopted children, Anthony (Poulter), Tanya (Sponheimer), Dennis (Bailey), and Megan (Skye Burkett). Megan places her doll onto a stove lit by Anthony, starting a house fire where each of the family members die except for Anthony, who runs back into the burning house as the prologue ends.

Back in the present, the group set off into Little Hope to search for help as the bus driver goes missing. They enter a bar to use a phone and encounter Vince (Kevin Hanchard), Tanya's boyfriend at the time of the house fire, who reveals that there is no power. On the way up the road, Andrew and Angela find a doll and are dragged backwards in time by a ghostly figure named Mary (Burkett). The group all begin to collide with Mary and see flashbacks where Reverend Carver (David Smith) is blackmailing Mary into helping him frame residents of Little Hope (doppelgängers of the present-day group) for witchcraft. Each member of the group except for Andrew witnesses their doppelgänger be executed before being attacked by a demonic version of them and either successfully fleeing or dying based on player choice. Ultimately, the group ends up at the Clark family household and witness one final flashback where Carver has betrayed Mary and has her framed for witchcraft. Andrew can instruct his doppelgänger to either blame Carver and have him taken away, have Mary's doll burned, or blame Mary and have her executed.

Returning to the present, Andrew is revealed to have actually been the bus driver, Anthony, who hallucinated the present-day group and the residents from the flashbacks as figures from his past, including his family, after being forced to return to Little Hope. Depending on his treatment towards Vince, who he ultimately blamed, and whether he has a gun, Anthony will either be arrested, commit suicide, continue to blame himself for his family's deaths, or accept that the house fire was not his fault.

- House of Ashes:

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2. Plague Tale Collection

Plot Summaries: (SPOILERS ALERT IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED THE GAMES)

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#Part of Games which Piqued my Interest (1 of ?)#the dark pictures anthology #plague tale requiem #plague tale innocence

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ruleof3bobby · 4 years

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THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT (2018) Grade: C

The Social Network, it is not. The premise is interesting, but not strong enough to carry a film, maybe a Black mirror episode.

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king-galaxius · 5 years

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2019 French Film of the Day

Movie: It Must Be Heaven Genre: Comedy Director: Elia Suleiman Writer: Elia Suleiman Released: 5/24/2019 97 minutes Starring: Elia Suleiman

Cast: Ali Suliman, Francois Girard, Gael Garcia Bernal, Nancy Grant, Guy Sprung, Kwasi Songui, Stephen McHattie, Gregoire Colin, Raia Haider, Alain Dahan, and Vincent Maraval.

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film-book · 5 years

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#TheHummingbirdProject (2018) Movie Trailer: Stock Traders #JesseEisenberg & #AlexanderSkarsgard have an Idea The Hummingbird Project Trailer Kim Nguyen's The Hummingbird Project (2018) movie trailer stars…

#Alexander Skarsgård #Ayisha Issa #Conrad Pla #Frank Schorpion #Jesse Eisenberg #Jessica Greco #Julian Bailey #Kim Nguyen #Kwasi Songui #Michael Mando #movie trailer #Robert Reynolds #Salma Hayek #Sarah Goldberg #The Hummingbird Project

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kritikycz · 5 years

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Operace kolibřík o velkém plánu na zbohatnutí se do českých biografů nedostala. Tento kanadský film se Salmou Hayek ale stojí za pozornost

DVD nosiče zřejmě v současnosti kupuje už jen pár vyvolených. Rozhodl jsem se proto, že nebude na škodu, když je čas od času nezištně krapet zpropaguju nějakým tím zajímavým počinem kinematografie, jenž na nich aktuálně vychází. Tento týden podle mě stojí za to upozornit na Operaci kolibřík, která je v našich končinách tuze opomenuta. Třeba na ČSFD…- Více na https://www.kritiky.cz/filmove-recenze/2019/operace-kolibrik-o-velkem-planu-na-zbohatnuti-se-do-ceskych-biografu-nedostala-tento-kanadsky-film-se-salmou-hayek-ale-stoji-za-pozornost/

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milliondollarbaby87 · 5 years

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The Hummingbird Project (2018) Review

In New York, Vincent and Anton are part of the high stakes game of High Frequency Trading and devise a plan to build a new cable in a straight line from Kansas to New Jersey making them millions in the process. But everything does not go to plan . . .

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montrealrampage · 7 years

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There Goes the Neighbourhood : Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park (by Bruce Norris; directed by Ellen David) is a play most highly recommended. It has won numerous awards including a Tony and a Pulitzer. David cast well and then directed a nuanced and clever rendition of the work. The first act is all about the narrow views and overt racism of the 1950s. Inhabiting a terrific set designed by fabulous Michael Eagan is a fantastic cast.

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#1950s #america #Bruce Norris #centaur theatre #Clybourne Park #community #Eleanor Noble #ellen david #Harry Standjofski #Kwasi Songui #Liana Montoro #Lisa Bronwyn Moore #Marcel Jeanin #Marcel Jeannin #Matthew Gagnon #property #race #racism

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retegenova · 4 years

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Il Paradiso Probabilmente

Cinema: Il Paradiso Probabilmente

Una riflessione su un mondo ormai divenuto surreale attraverso gag che però raramente funzionano

(mymonetro: 2,98) Consigliato: Nì Regia di Elia Suleiman.

Con Elia Suleiman, Gael García Bernal, Holden Wong, Robert Higden, Sebastien Beaulac, François Girard, Aldo Lopez, Pascal Tréguy, Natascha Wiese, Ali Suliman, Kwasi Songui, Grégoire Colin, Vincent Maraval

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#Cinema #Genova #Natale

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 5 years

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THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT (2018)

Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Mando, Salma Hayek, Sarah Goldberg, Anna Maguire, Frank Schorpion, Johan Heldenbergh, Kwasi Songui, Ayisha Issa, Mark Slacke, Conrad Pla, Julian Bailey, Jessica Greco, Robert Reynolds, Wyatt Bowen, Ryan Ali, Amanda Silveira, Kaniehtiio Horn, Anton Koval, Adam Bernett and Trinity Forrest.

Screenplay by Kim Nguyen.

Directed by Kim Nguyen.

Distributed by The Orchard. 111 minutes. Rated R.

Despite what some politicians may try to convince you, the American economy is a mess. At least it is if you don’t have billions to prop you up, because income disparity is at insane “let them eat cake” levels. The middle class has been slowly, systematically eradicated ever since the Reagan years. And it mostly has to do with guys like the ones in The Hummingbird Project.

The Hummingbird Project is the latest in a series of films about white collar criminals going to extreme measures to cheat and steal their way to massive wealth, without once considering the damage they are causing with the rest of the world. At least Hummingbird has the good sense to look at these people with a certain amount of disapproval – to a certain extent films like The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short almost made this kind of graft look rather glamorous.

There is nothing glamorous about The Hummingbird Project. It is dirty, squalid, ugly, desperate and detached from humanity. And honestly, it’s often pretty dull. In fact, technically, when you get down to it, The Hummingbird Project is two hours spent watching people digging trenches, laying cable line and obsessing over computer code.

Of course, there is more to the scam than just that. People go to insane measures to work out this convoluted plot; blowing millions of dollars, spending weeks crunching numbers, doing manual and intellectual labor, bribing and intimidating land owners, dealing with corporate subterfuge, potentially going to jail, even ignoring possibly terminal cancer.

And why do all this? To get an advantage of a percentage of a millisecond – the time it takes for a hummingbird to flap its wings – in the stock market.

If you can’t make money legally, cheat. What a lovely moral for the Trump era.

This bottomless hunger for wealth and power doesn’t even make sense. As mentioned above, one of the characters is doing against doctor’s orders and ignoring a probably deadly case of lung cancer just to finish the project. What good does it do you to be insanely rich if you are also dead? Of course, that is writer/director Kim Nguyen’s point, I believe. The cancer is a physical symbol of the characters’ moral malaise.

Which doesn’t make the movie any easier to watch. The problem is there are very few people anyone will like in The Hummingbird Project. These people are to blame for their problems, their insatiable greed has caused every bump in their roads.

The two main characters are brothers. The alpha is Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg), a low-level Wall Street trader who goes rogue when he realizes that he could gain that brief advantage in time if he builds a perfectly straight cable line from Kansas to New York.

Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) doesn’t so much care about money. He’s more interested in the intellectual exercise. He’s a hacker and just wants to prove that he can do it. However, when a hotel waitress – one of the few likable people here – points out that their pursuit of wealth is cutting out the people who are actually providing the goods, Anton is flummoxed. They are not a part of the paradigm he explains to her.

Only eventually, after multiple problems, dangers, arguments and mini-disasters, do the brothers realize maybe everyone is part of the paradigms, after all.

Plus, their viperish ex-boss (Salma Hayek with a stylish gray-streaked hairdo) is moving heaven and earth to make sure they do not succeed.

There is some terrific acting here, but the film itself is rather dull. It has some intriguing ideas, but for the most part it doesn’t quite seem to know what it wants to say, or how it wants to say it.

Jay S. Jacobs

#The Hummingbird Project #2019 #Movie Reviews #Jesse Eisenberg #Jay S. Jacobs

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jontheblogcentric · 5 years

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VIFF 2019 Review: It Must Be Heaven

Director/writer/actor Elia Suleiman plays himself trying to get his film of Palestine made in It Must Be Heaven.

Saying It Must Be Heaven is a Palestinian film can give a lot of people the wrong impression at first. It’s a film that is enjoyable and worth seeing.

The film begins with a Christian religious ceremony in Nazareth, Palestine. They’re to enter the church, but it’s locked. It’s locked…

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then00bofficial · 4 years

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😱 The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan Part 06 🎮 Nightmaaron: https://goo.gl/UtXRUK 👍 Drop a Like for more content! ✔️ Subscribe: https://goo.gl/qUMci5 ▶️ Video: https://youtu.be/0eOxJUJHFhE The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan is an interactive drama survival horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the first of eight planned installments in The Dark Pictures Anthology series, and was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 30 August 2019. The main plot of Man of Medan is presented as an unfinished story in the possession of the omnipresent Curator (Pip Torrens), who requests the player's assistance in completing it. Decisions made by the player alter the outcome of the story and the fates of its characters. The Curator's story centers on five individuals partaking in an underwater diving expedition to find a submerged WWII plane wreck in the South Pacific Ocean: brothers Alex (Kareem Alleyne) and Brad Smith (Chris Sandiford), Alex's girlfriend Julia (Arielle Palik), Julia's brother Conrad (Shawn Ashmore), and Félicité "Fliss" DuBois (Ayisha Issa), the captain of the group's dive boat. The expedition quickly turns dangerous, however, when the five are taken hostage by pirates Olson (Kwasi Songui), Junior (Chimwemwe Miller), and Danny (Russell Yuen). Against their will, the group is brought to a large ghost ship – the fabled Indonesian Ourang Medan – where their worst nightmares become reality. With their safety threatened, their sanity tested, and their survival at stake, the five must make swift life-or-death choices that could either lead them to freedom or cause them to suffer fatal consequences. 🎞 Conan Exiles Playlists: Conan Exiles - http://bit.ly/2RABI0z Conan Exiles #LIVE - http://bit.ly/35VNkQF 🎞 Guild Wars 2: http://bit.ly/374eVR6 🎞 ARK Playlists: Ark Season 9 - http://bit.ly/37aJ69v Ark Season 8 - http://bit.ly/2FY4fHH Ark Season 7 - http://bit.ly/30rJMEy Ark Season 6 - http://bit.ly/389vyen Ark Season 5 - http://bit.ly/2TFxhEn Ark Season 4 - http://bit.ly/2TuUzwh Ark Season 3 - http://bit.ly/2tmYH6U Ark Season 2 - http://bit.ly/3854ywy Ark Season 1 - http://bit.ly/2Nxlp3o 🎞 Subnautica Playlists: Subnautica Season 1: http://bit.ly/35SEvao Subnautica Season 2: http://bit.ly/30rfh1H 🎞 Osiris New Dawn: Osiris New Dawn Season 1: http://bit.ly/35XWA6T Osiris New Dawn Season 2: http://bit.ly/2G1CVs1 Osiris New Dawn Season 3: http://bit.ly/3ad2BQu 👉 Social Media 👈 🔥 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theofficialnoob 📲 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheNoobUTube ☎️ Discord: https://discord.gg/R6CzVh3 🌍 Web: thenoobofficial.net 🤣 The Idiot Brigade 🤣 🎮 Slayer Vs Gaming: https://goo.gl/ruk5SH 🎮 Nightmaaron: https://goo.gl/UtXRUK 🕹️ TheNoob Official: https://goo.gl/qUMci5 🌍 Web: https://theidiotbrigade.wordpress.com Thank you so much for watching my video, I really hope you enjoyed it. by TheNOOB Official

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thedivineprince · 7 years

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Les Maitres du Suspense Featuring Kwasi Songui (at Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

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headspacepress · 7 years

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Of Property Values and Prejudice

Written by Bruce Norris as a spin-off of sorts to Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park is a play fully aware of its importance and the satire and social criticism it serves up. You can see the playwright’s message coming at you from a mile away. It still doesn’t prevent you from enjoying it, though. Particularly when it’s delivered by such a competent group of local actors.

Clybourne Park is a two-act play about racism and the politics of race, but also about integration, social structure, gentrification, and how we navigate our expectations and perceived limitations within those often-unseen confines.

In the first act, we’re transported back to 1959 Chicago in an all-white, middle class neighbourhood; black maid and all. Bev and Russ have sold their bungalow to a black family, upsetting the ‘social order’ and creating havoc among their friends who now fear that the value of their homes will be affected as a direct result. The dialogue, the dynamics between men and women, between black and white characters are true to the times. It’s a time warp of sorts and, if you exclude the racism and sexism, there’s a nostalgic twinge of bygone simplicity to it all.

In the second act, we fast-forward to Chicago in 2009. The now predominantly black neighbourhood has bounced back, and affluent, young, and mainly white buyers are looking to purchase. With shifting dynamics and demographics, the (mainly black) owners in the community are worried about gentrification and about the character of the area changing along with new arrivals.

It’s a current theme in many urban communities today (Montreal being no exception) as older, established, working-class neighbourhoods that have survived lean times, suddenly become hip and desirable, driving prices up and low-income residents out.

It’s interesting to see Norris take inspiration from A Raisin in the Sun, use certain references and secondary characters as the main characters of his play, and then flip the script around and show us an entirely different social dynamic, observing different people during a very different era fearing different things. The social divide is still there, though.

Post-racial world? Not quite!

Norris’ play was cleverly written to poke fun at notions that we’re living in a post-racial world. Racism still exists of course; it’s just much more subtly displayed and observed in civilized company. Perceptions, expectations, clichés abound and guide people’s behaviour. Racial integration has, of course, taken place, if we compare today to the ‘50s and ‘60s, but things haven’t gotten any easier. In some respects, if one takes their cues from a chaotic, messy Act Two, things are even more toxic and convoluted today. Sometimes, to borrow Maya Angelou’s line, even when you know better, you still don’t do better.

When the play first hit stages in 2009 Obama was getting ready to move into the White House and the time was ripe for conversations on race and racial tensions. The world seemed a more hopeful place. Clybourne Park went on to win the Tony Award, the Olivier Award in the U.K. and the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for drama.

While complex and still biting as satire, the play and some of the dialogue in Act Two feel a little dated in 2017 (when you’re living in a time when the President of the U.S. has been recorded saying “grab them by the pussy”, it’s hard to be shocked by any on-stage interaction challenging PC culture) but it’s still a masterful piece of writing, touching on numerous hot-button issues in a hilarious fashion.

At the centre of this play is a home. Home, of course, is about more than four walls and the roof over your head. It’s about belonging, about finding your refuge and your escape from the world. Home is about the bonds that are formed – both within the four walls and the outside perimeters. The concept of home means different things to different people, coloured as it is by our cultural and racial background, our history, and our knowledge of the past. Home is the part of the world that you get to decorate and define as you wish. Home, ultimately and inevitably, extends to your neighborhood and how it can enhance and expand your value (gentrified, hip neighborhoods) and how it can limit you and put you in your place (segregation, ghettos). And, often, those definitions and those property and human values are arbitrary, imposed societally, and extremely fluid and ever-changing over the years.

Solid Montreal production

The Centaur’s Quebec English-language premiere is a solid undertaking, in the capable hands of local actor and director Ellen David. Harry Standjofski as Russ probably gives one of the best performances of his career (and as an avid theatre goer I’ve seen this competent local actor more than a few times in the past two decades), while Lisa Bronwyn Moore is pitch-perfect as the ‘50s housewife with the high-pitched sing-song-y voice and the simplicity and naivete of her world views, which in some ways are wiser than the views of all the men in the play. Marcel Jeannin, last seen in the Segal’s incredibly fun production of Noises Off, is excellent as Karl Linder, the neighbour who’s worried that a black family moving into the neighbourhood will affect property values. Liana Montoro as Francine the long-suffering and patient maid and Kwasi Songui as her baritone-voiced husband strike the right balance between graceful patience and eye-rolling annoyance. Matthew Gagnon and Eleanor Noble provide the much-needed laughs and competently ease in and out of their different roles and vastly contrasting characters.

All in all, I felt that the first act of the play worked much better than the second one, which felt a bit jumbled and chaotic to me. But perhaps that was the playwright’s intent. Perhaps he meant to show that nothing’s been smoothed out, nothing’s been figured out. We’re awkwardly stumbling along, moving forward in tiny increments, making a lot of noise along the way.

There are no answers to be found in Clybourne Park. Only astute observations about prejudice and property values – tackled with and without PC culture. It’s a production worth catching, both for its ever-pertinent subject matter, as well as its solid performances by a very competent local cast.

Clybourne Park runs at the Centaur Theatre until April 30. For information and/or tickets, you can call 514-288-3161 or access the Centaur Theatre website online here.

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milliondollarbaby87 · 5 years

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Mirror, Mirror (2012) Review

When the evil Queen takes control of the kingdom when her husband the King has disappeared that does not bode well for Snow White when she is kept hidden away in the palace but then banished to the forest. Meeting with rebellious but kindhearted dwarfs.

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