If there is only one name to remember in the English Canadian cinema industry it's Don McKellar. This guy is very talentuous, as a director and also as an actor.
With his very impressive first film, McKellar tell us the story of a bunch of persons living the end of the world. More precisely on the eve of the year 2000. But here, it's a philosophical theme and not a reason for visual effects (there is none by the way).
Every character lives the last six hours of their life very differently from each other. Everyone one has a deep belief in what they are doing. And that is one of the main quality of this film. There is no right or wrong, there is only the clock ticking.
And as times go by under our nose, you can feel the anxiety in the theater. And what will really happened ? We don't know . And it's very exciting.
The direction and the performance of McKellar are perfect. Sandra Oh is amazing (a very very good actress to discover), David Cronenberg play a man like himself perfectly and Genevieve Bujold is as usual, extra.
Without a doubt, Last Night is one of the best first film I saw in my life (like the Confessional of French Canadian Robert Lepage). And one of the best productions of 1998. So let's hope for another tomorrow very soon.
With his very impressive first film, McKellar tell us the story of a bunch of persons living the end of the world. More precisely on the eve of the year 2000. But here, it's a philosophical theme and not a reason for visual effects (there is none by the way).
Every character lives the last six hours of their life very differently from each other. Everyone one has a deep belief in what they are doing. And that is one of the main quality of this film. There is no right or wrong, there is only the clock ticking.
And as times go by under our nose, you can feel the anxiety in the theater. And what will really happened ? We don't know . And it's very exciting.
The direction and the performance of McKellar are perfect. Sandra Oh is amazing (a very very good actress to discover), David Cronenberg play a man like himself perfectly and Genevieve Bujold is as usual, extra.
Without a doubt, Last Night is one of the best first film I saw in my life (like the Confessional of French Canadian Robert Lepage). And one of the best productions of 1998. So let's hope for another tomorrow very soon.