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Written by April Yorke   
Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:00
The Genie nominations were announced yesterday, and normally I have little to say about them because I see so few Canadian films (boo hiss, I know). Ce qu'il faut pour vivre (The Necessities of Life) is playing at the Bytowne later this month, and, as thoroughly depressing as it looks, I'll see that. But my real quibble: six nominations for Passchendaele. Six? Are they kidding me with that? Did anyone else see that movie? It's not good, people. It starts out jarring (good), then it moves to Canada for an extended period (still good), then it goes back to the war (expected, given the title), then it gets briefly sexy (v. good), and then it gets all crazy operatic and over the top to the point of embarrassment. No, really, I was embarrassed for Paul Gross. But the time you get to the slow pan . . . ugh. Couldn't we have nominated, I don't know, Just Buried instead?
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April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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