The Five Senses
- Molly Parker: Anna Miller
- Gabrielle Rose: Ruth Seraph
- Elize Frances Stolk: Amy Lee Miller
- Nadia Litz: Rachel Seraph
- Mary- Louise Parker: Rona
- Daniel MacIvor: Robert
- Philippe Volter: Dr. Richard Jacob
- Clinton Walker: Carl
- Astrid Van Wieren: patient of Dr. Jacob
- Brendan Fletcher: Rupert
The Five Senses is a Canadian film episode of Jeremy Podeswa from the year 1999.
Action
The film consists of five episodes that symbolize the individual senses. For the contact is the masseuse Ruth Seraph who treated Anna Miller. Anna's older daughter meets with the voyeur Rupert. The younger daughter of Anna goes missing.
The cleaning man Robert has problems with his sense of smell, a baker loses his sense of taste, Dr. Richard Jacob is deaf. Anna's missing daughter is found unharmed, what the media reports.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film written, the plot of the episodes give the " sensual binding on the figures in their own feelings " again. The film was " staged insistently ," the roles are " good busy", the images were " atmospheric ".
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times, July 28, 2000) wrote that it was a film about people who would lose their senses and would fear to lose yourself. As in Short Cuts is the real issue solitude.
Awards
Jeremy Podeswa won a prize from the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival. He was nominated film festivals also for a price of Flanders International Film Festival and the Grand Prix of Paris.
Jeremy Podeswa won the 2000 Genie Award for his direction of the film. Among the eight other nominations were among the nominations for the screenplay for the camera work, Daniel MacIvor and Mary- Louise Parker.
Gregory Middleton 2000 was nominated for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Award.
Worth mentioning
The rotated in Toronto drama took place at the U.S. box office 497 thousand dollars.