Saint Monica At The Playhouse (July 18, 7PM)
Source: Toronto Film Review · Published: 2024-07-15
<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If folks are free Thursday evening at 7PM in Hamilton, I’ll be moderating a Q&A with Terrance Odette after a screening of his 2002 film</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Saint Monica</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">at The Playhouse.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If you don’t know Odette, he’s a proto-<i>diy</i> Hamilton filmmaker. <br />His first feature <i>Heater </i>dates back to 1999 and he now already five features to his activity (alongside music-videos and television shows). Working with modest budgets, Odette’s able to create these complex characters usually going through these very intense days and nights. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In terms of his creative process, Odette describes how seeing how actors read his dialogue is one of his favorite things about being a director, and I would add how he is able to film them integrated within a very specific local setting is one of my favorite things about being one of their spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The style of his films recalls that of John Cassavetes and the Italian neorealist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In <i>Heater</i> two unlikely guys-experiencing-homelessness in