If You're Under 30, You Must See This. If You're 30+, You Should See This.
Closet Monster (dir. Stephen Dunn, 2015) is completely original and completely wonderful. I had heard Dunn and star Connor Jessup interviewed on the often-dreadful q CBC radio show and decided to see it once I heard Isabella Rossellini had done the voice-over for a hamster. (How ridiculously cool of her!) Also because it was Canadian, indie and fresh. I wasn't disappointed. Caveat: you might have issues with this film. Like, if you're a homophobe. Or if you hate violence and horror, which I avoid watching, but the Cronenbergesqueness [what's the noun for this??] which covers these elements made it bearable (...okay, I had to turn away once). They are necessary to the film, which is simultaneously genre-busting and genre-melding. As Dunn said, it is not intentionally a queer film: LGBTQ identity is a catalyst for the plot and an essential theme, but its "aboutness" is much broader than that. He also provides some much-needed light moments. Our beloved Mariti...