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Article: Probing the depths.(Review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- September 13, 2000
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MY JOURNEY TO the Montreal World Film Festival has become an annual spiritual retreat. Here citizens stand in long lines to pick up tickets to a sold-out Chinese film at 10 on a Saturday morning. Critics, flashing their media passes, know to arrive early and head for the balcony at the Cinema Imperial because ticket-holders quickly fill up the main floor, There is no popcorn here; and this year not even coffee in the lobby between showings, only bottled water.
A spiritual retreat? When one of the films deals with a drug-addicted mother who loves her daily hit more than her children? Yes, because films at their best probe the depths of life in ways that ...