Wilby Wonderful
by Daniel MacIvor
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Actor: Daniel MacIvor, Maury Chaykin, Paul Gross, Rebecca Jenkins, Sandra OhDirector: Daniel MacIvor
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
Published: 2005
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Film Movement
Movie Reviews of Wilby Wonderful
Movie Review: Wonderful, indeed.
Summary: 5 Stars
You know, I really love finding stuff like this. From the mind of the tragically underrated but extremely talented Canadian filmmaker Daniel MacIvor comes "Wilby Wonderful", a quirky offbeat tale of love, redemption, and other random things. Basically it's a day in the life of the residents of Wilby, a small and tightly-knit island community. There's not really a main plot on the whole, but rather several smaller plots that sort of intertwine and fit together nicely.
The story follows a variety of colorful characters, including a depressed gay man who continually attempts suicide; a teenage girl (played perfectly by the ever-amazing Ellen Page) who is struggling to maintain relationships with her promiscuous alcoholic mother and her jerk boyfriend, who is pressuring her into having sex; a high-strung real-estate agent (Sandra Oh) whose fierce dedication to her work is putting a serious strain on her marriage; a handyman (played by an unfortunately unknown actor named Callum Keith Rennie) who oddly seems to offer solace to everyone he meets, and many others.
The characters all face their own conflicts, which all escalate as the day progresses, and each plot thickens as their paths cross. With a movie like this, the challenge is keeping everything focused and organized, and MacIvor does an excellent job of this. The performances are great across the board, and the story is filled with genuine emotion and just a bit of dark humor to balance things out. It may sound a bit bleak and depressing by my description, but this is ultimately a feel-good movie that never feels sappy or contrived. It also manages to be quirky and unique, but still pretty realistic. You sort of get the feeling that these kinds of things probably really do go on in small towns all over the world, that sort of struggle to maintain a balance between the conflict of the individual and the comaraderie of the community.
Finally, the cinematography is excellent as well. It has this sort of simplistic, pastoral feel that's perfectly conducive to the mood, and the location (somewhere in Nova Scotia, I think?) is really beautiful. I really like the music too. There's at least a couple of songs in here for which I really need to find the artist.
Anyway, this is just a really great movie, one that I could watch over and over and never get tired of. I really wish MacIvor would make more movies, because I really dig his style. He did one before this called "Marion Bridge" (which also stars Ellen Page, and the woman who played her mother in this one), which is also really good. I definitely need more.
Summary of Wilby Wonderful
Wilby Wonderful is the February selection in the Film Movement Series. A bittersweet comedy about the difference a day makes. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby try to maintain business as usual in the face of very unusual business.Art House & International DVD Video
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