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21.02.2023 - 22:03 / etcanada.com
The official trailer for the upcoming Canadian comedy film “I Like Movies” has arrived.
The film, which premiered at TIFF in September 2022 and recently screened as part of their Top Ten Film series, is the feature debut from Toronto-based director Chandler Levack.
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The official film synopsis reads: “Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile, Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.”
A TIFF programme note for the film says Kweller “is an irascible, self- and movie-obsessed teenager living in the wilds of early-2000s Burlington, Ontario,” inspired by Levack’s upbringing in the suburban Canadian city.
While Kweller dreams of attending NYU by means of saving money working part-time at his local video store, Sequels, to afford tuition, he has “more serious problems — ones that the 10 free video rentals he gets weekly [from his job] won’t solve.”
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Kweller’s egocentrism “threatens his only real friendship, with longtime buddy and fellow lonely guy Matt Macarchuk (Percy Hynes White), the put-upon co-star and co-creator of his student short. It becomes increasingly clear that Lawrence’s movie obsession (and his inability to tolerate anyone) is a way of burying a world of hurt and avoiding any real connection.”
Although Kweller can be “infuriating” as he “bounces from one small but impactful disaster to the next,” viewers will find themselves “rooting for him — not to realize his fantasies, but to engage with his reality.”
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