C’es pas moi, je le jure! is about a little boy who keeps trying to kill himself. In-between his suicide attempts he lives a pretty normal kid life. His parents fight, there is a cute little girl that lives next door, and he hates school. The movie plays out in a symphony of funny, sad, ironic and dark events. I would consider it kind of like a Canadian version of Little Miss Sunshine, but much better. Along with a great story, the movie is a treat to watch visually. Think Edward Scissor Hands scenery, but set in reality and not so over the top. The kitchen table, the wallpaper, the knee high socks on the girls. It is all there.
It played at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008 and is up for a Genie award for Achievement In Editing? Best editing? WTF? Sure, there is an art and skill to cutting a movie, but there are so many other great things about this flick.
Seeing this movie also really pissed me off. Why haven’t people heard of this movie? Why wasn’t the theatre packed last Thursday night when I saw it? Why do shit movies get nominated for Oscars. Whatever, now you know, so seek it out and go see it.
If Grant Lawrence and Kevin McDonald (The Kids In The Hall) had a baby, it would look like the dad in this movie, Daniel Briere, pictured above.
Of music note, Canadian Patrick Watson did the score for it, except for one Sigur Ros song that got snuck in at the end. Look for a new Patrick Watson album out next month (Wooden Arms released on Secretcity)
You can still catch C’est pas moi, je le jure! at the Royal (608 College) all this week.
5/5 – French people make better movies than English people.
On a kind of similar note, here is a Patrick Watson song that appeard on Shit Anatomy Grey’s Anatomy
