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C.R.A.Z.Y.

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Original title

C.R.A.Z.Y. (CRAZY)

Year

2005

Running time

127 min.

Country

Canada

Director

Jean-Marc Vallée

Screenwriter

Jean-Marc Vallée, François Boulay

Cast

Music

Various

Cinematography

Pierre Mignot

Producer

Cirrus Communications, Crazy Films

Genre

Drama | 1960s. 1970s. Family Relationships. Teen/coming-of-age. Music. Drugs. Gay & Lesbian

Synopsis

Zachary 'Zac' Beaulieu (Marc-Andre Grondin) is a young French Canadian and one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s. Surrounded by music by Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones and with motorbike escapades, Zac struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

Rankings Position

#6 Best Canadian Movies of all time
#46 Best LGTBIQ+ Productions

Awards: 2005: Festival Toronto: Best Movie canadiense

2005: Gijon Film Festival: Best Director, Screenplay & Art Direction

2005: Genie Awards: Best Canadian Feature

2005: Gijón Film Festival: 3 awards. 4 nominations

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Critics' reviews

"Although Vallee's remarkably assured film, which clocks in at more than two hours, proves that it's possible to have too much of a good thing (...) still manages keep up the entertaining yet emotionally satisfying pace"

Michael Rechtshaffen: The Hollywood Reporter
"[A] bouncy coming-of-age tale that coasts along on a terrific soundtrack and a spot-on feel for period detail"

Jay Weissberg: Variety
"It's a well-acted, rather familiar film."

Philip French: The Guardian
"Based on the life of a friend of the director, it has (...) a plausible sense of the stubborn ructions and unarticulated tendernesses of family life, but also offers fantastical touches apt to its religiose undertones"

Ben Walters: Time Out
"There's a colourful energy that's hard to ignore (...) Definitely more than the sum of its parts."

Jamie Woolley: BBC

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Ranking Lists Position

7 My Favorite Canadian Movies (39)
27 My Top 10 Movies from 2005 (119)
61 Little Gems: Little Known Movies I've Discovered (56)

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