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Amnon Buchbinder
Canada 2005
92min English o.v.
Opening the Festival on a highly entertaining and at the same time poignant note, Whole New Thing is a story about finding one’s true self, no matter when it happens to be in life. Emerson (Aaron Webber) lives with his parents Kaya (the remarkable Rebecca Jenkins ) and Rog (Robert Joy) in their eco-home in the wilds of Nova Scotia. He's just had his first wet dream, and written and illustrated his first book. All 1,000 pages of it. Meanwhile the home-schooled youth can barely add 2 + 2. His mother decides it's time to enrol her precocious boy-wonder in the local rural school, much to Emerson's dismay, he meets his English teacher, Don (Daniel MacIvor). At 42, Don has settled into a life of perpetual adolescence, paying regular visits to a park washroom for anonymous sex. When Emerson develops his first crush on Don, he throws himself into the awakening of his heart with alarming abandon. A beguiling and provocative comedy/drama about the discovery of sex and the longing for intimacy, Whole New Thing brings to life the rites of passage of youth and middle-age. Director Amnon Buchbinder along with co-writer MacIvor (writer/director/actor of Festival favourites, Beefcake, Until I Hear From You and this year’s Wilby Wonderful) has created a very smart, funny, frank and captivatingly intense coming-of-age story where the grownups have as much growing to do as the kids. This is going to be a whole new thing. For everyone.
Shown on:
thursday, november 03, 8H00 PM parisien 6 - pgm01 (Moustache + Whole New Thing)