Sunday, September 15, 2019

TIFF 2019: There's Something in the Water


Ellen Page's quickly-assembled (filmed in April, completed a week before TIFF started) documentary There's Something in the Water takes a look at a handful of black and first nations communities in her native Nova Scotia, where environmental disasters (existing and potential) threaten the health of people. These are stories similar to that of Flint Michigan or many of our arctic Inuit communities, where the people are treated as second-class citizens and left to live with poison in their water and other pollutants.

The film shows its roughness, and the production values are not especially high, but the voices of the women with whom Page talks about these issues are powerful and compelling. This wasn't one of the best "movies" we saw this week, but it is a very powerful and important film.

TIFF 2019 Overview

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