The Cinematheque

“One of the best films of the year, full stop … It boasts a singularly astonishing performance by Deragh Campbell.”

Guy Lodge, The Guardian

Anchored by a roundly praised, powder-keg performance from Deragh Campbell, Kazik Radwanski’s triumphant third feature stands as a high point in Anglo-Canada’s noise-making new wave. This penetrating, close-range character study concerns 27-year-old live-wire Anne (Campbell, VFCC Best Actress), a Toronto daycare worker more absorbed in make-believing with the kids than supervising them. Trying, and failing, to get her adult-life shit together, Anne fumbles through a romance with a sweet, funny guy (Matt Johnson) while assuaging her anxieties by plummeting from airplanes. Redolent of Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence in its flitting, handheld vernacular and tender but unsparing depiction of a tempestuous soul, the film earned widespread acclaim but, owing to a cinema-shuttering pandemic, was denied a theatrical run in Vancouver. (We ultimately offered it online in 2021.) We are pleased to finally screen Anne at The Cinematheque, in a bill with Radwanski’s superb new movie Matt and Mara.

“There is simply no one else today experimenting with form and character, and succeeding on both fronts, like Radwanski … If there is justice in the Canadian film world, then Anne at 13,000 ft will be the film to launch both its director and star into the international stratosphere.”

Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail

“One of the best films of 2019 … Deragh Campbell is responsible for some of the most painfully honest moments we saw onscreen this year.”

Adrian Mack, The Georgia Straight