Posted on 12/09/03
A solid year, with few stinkers
LIAM LACEY: Favourite film: A tie between Allan King's Dying at Grace and Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World. Maddin's flickering musical satire set in the 1930s is almost exhaustingly creative, very funny and beautiful to look at. At the other extreme, Allan King's documentary on death in a palliative-care unit is a testament to the almost forgotten faith in the camera as a truth-telling machine.
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