FRI, JAN 21 / 7:30 pm
DIRS. JACKIE BURROUGHS, LOUISE CLARK, JOHN WALKER, JOHN FRIZZELL, AERLYN WEISSMAN | 1988 | CANADA | 91 MIN
FREE ADMISSION
GARY BURNS INTRODUCES A WINTER TAN
Based on the writings of Maryse Holder, posthumously published as Give Sorrow Words, this articulate and passionate film is a first person account of Maryse, a self destructive woman who looks for romance and freedom in Mexico but finds mostly just sex. As she accumulates an astonishing list of conquests, she chronicles each experience and emotion in a series of explicit letters to her best friend Edith. One of Canada’s greatest actresses, the late Jackie Burroughs gives a brutally honest performance as a woman looking deep into her soul and taking herself to a dark place.
Canadian film writer and director Gary Burns has made a career out of defying the odds. He has created several innovative, low budget independent films that remain quintessentially Canadian – and indeed, Calgarian. His first feature The Suburbanators debuted at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival where it placed in the Top Ten Canadian films and was also invited to the Sundance Festival.Waydowntown was the winner of the CITY TV Award for Best Canadian Feature of 2000. More recently Radiant City won Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Vancouver International Film Festival. Burns is currently in post production on his latest feature film The Future Is Now!which he is once again collaborating on with co-writer and co-director Jim Brown.
