The Stone Angel (film)

The Stone Angel is a Canadian feature film from 2007. The screenplay for the film comes from director Kari Scandia, based on the same name, published in 1964, the first novel from the " Manawaka series" by Margaret Laurence.

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The film depicts several decades in the life of Hagar Shipley nonagenarian. Her son Marvin and his wife have decided to give Hagar in a nursing home, but the latter refuses and travels by bus to the place where she spent her childhood and adolescence and is there deal with their past.

As a young woman, Hagar decides to marry against the will of their father's peasants Bram Shipley, thereby alienating herself from her father. Your initially happy marriage gets more and more shaken, because Hagar to her role as a woman does not subordinate and looks equated with her husband. She treats him numb, both often argue, and Brem is an alcoholic. Hagar and brakes have two sons, Marvin and John. Hagar decides to leave the house and they both move to another place with her younger son John. Marvin goes during which the army. Later John pulls back to his father, who has become very ill. John is Hagar's favorite son, but after he comes together with Arlene, so he breaks his mother's heart, because she disapproves of this relationship because Arlene is the daughter of a once wealthy family who had spoken to Hagar's youth bad about it. Hagar speaks with John and also with Arlene and says both that she is opposed to this connection. Compared with Arlene they mentioned that they see no point in their relationship with her son, since this was not to feed both able and he drinks too much. Arlene tried to explain to Hagar because her this was not important because they also own nothing now. John and Arlene die later, after, while against them comes a train due to a money bet, go with a car on the train tracks.

In their hideout, a dilapidated house, meets the grown old Hagar to Leo leads them to consult with their secret, what role she wore on John's death, deal. No longer to suppress their feelings in the situation she finally realizes that her stubbornness it was that made her meet many wrong decisions and had caused misunderstandings. Finally, it is to take a degree with Marvin in the situation.

Criticism

" Told with a number of time steps and three different actresses played that embody the protagonist in different stages of life, the film still feels like a uniform. "

Awards

2007 The Stone Angel at the Tokyo International Film Festival for the Tokyo Grand Prix was nominated. The Writers Guild of Canada nominated the film for 2008 awarded by her WGC Award. Also in 2008, the film by the Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Director and Best Editing for the DGC Craft Award, as well as all the production involved for the DGC Team Award nominated.

At the ceremony the Genie Award 2009 Ellen Burstyn was honored as Best Actress and John McCarthy for Best Film Music. Bobby Bukowski was nominated for Best Cinematography and Rob Gray for Best Production Design.

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