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The Lotus Eaters: Directed by Paul Shapiro. With Tara Frederick, Aloka McLean, R.H. Thomson, Sheila McCarthy. A family of Canadian pig farmers find their lives addled with dysfunction and underlying problems beneath their cheerful facade.
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- Drama
- Paul Shapiro
- 1993-09
The Lotus Eaters is a 1993 Canadian drama film, written by Peggy Thompson and directed by Paul Shapiro.The film stars R. H. Thomson and Sheila McCarthy as Hal and Diana Kingswood, a married couple living on Galiano Island in British Columbia in the 1960s with their two daughters, Cleo (Tara Frederick) and Zoe (Aloka McLean).
- English
- Paul Shapiro
- 12 September 1993 (TIFF)
- Peggy Thompson
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Synopsis. Set on the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of "ideas" turns a small town upside down. However, when one student learns the new instructor is having an affair with her father, she tries black magic to turn things back to the way they were.
- Paul Shapiro
- R.H. Thomson
Summaries. A family of Canadian pig farmers find their lives addled with dysfunction and underlying problems beneath their cheerful facade. It's 1964 on one of the Gulf Islands off the coast of Vancouver, BC. The Kingswoods - father Hal, mother Diana, late teen-aged daughter Cleo, adolescent daughter Zoe, and Hal's long widowed mother Flora ...
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s ...
Apr 5, 2013 · Lotus Eaters is not simply about the "glamorous world of young and beautiful jet-setters." McGuinness introduces, subtly, layers to her story that are very much into philosophy. The allegory of the death of the horse and the car crash is a critical moment of tension that reflects the filmmaker's genius. Unfortunately, after this shot the movie ...
