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Jun 11, 2024 · In this interview, legendary indie filmmaker Patricia Rozema sits down with us to discuss her works, from Cannes award winner I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing to her lesbian romance When Night is Falling to Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. Read our extensive coverage of Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece (2018).
- Lena Wilson
In the vibrant, largely unknown landscape of Canadian cinema, the Toronto New Wave movement originated during the dynamic and transformative period of the 1980s. Filmmakers like Atom Egoyan, Patricia Rozema and Bruce McDonald distanced themselves from the conventional norms of Hollywood dramas, embracing independent and unique way of storytelling.
- On Why Mouthpiece Spoke to Her
- On Adapting Stage to Screen, from Beckett’s Happy Days to Mouthpiece
- On Mother/Daughter Relationships and Grief
- On Recurring Themes in Rozema’s Work
- On Making The Ordinary Extraordinary
- On Navigating The Male-Dominated Film Industry
- On Telling Women’s Stories
It really was a great play. The audience vibrated before it started because the word was already out about it. It was one of those exciting cultural moments. Amy and Norah—keep an eye on them. They addressed various issues about being a woman today, in Toronto, as themselves. Their attitudes toward their bodies; their attitudes toward their inherit...
The Beckett Estate doesn’t allow the tiniest bit of intervention with the materials—no interaction, no development. So I took that very seriously, you know that’s the art of contention. I put it on a volcano because it’s usually performed in a pile of sand in the theatre, but [a pile of sand is] not what he meant. He just meant somewhere where ther...
I’m a mother. I’ve had kids. My mother died about the age [that Cassandra is in Mouthpiece] so I felt like I really had legitimate input. I had a legitimate voice in this creation. They [Amy and Norah] didn’t know what that would feel like. They had more anger towards their mothers, although they both have great relationships with their [living] mo...
There will always be the tension [in my work] of, how will I spend my time on earth? My first film was called Passion: A Letter in 16mm,and it was a letter by a woman played by Linda Griffiths (who was quite a hero in the theatre scene in Toronto and died way too young from cancer). She was struggling with a passion for excellence in her work and p...
I’m more interested in taking an ordinary person, rather than a heroic, extraordinarily beautiful person. I guess it seems kinder in my mind. I was moved by other movies like that. I’ve said this before and I’m suspicious of it, and maybe it’s not good, but I have this feeling like it’s something I can offer. It seems to me that people all over the...
I don’t know if it was being the only woman in a predominantly male [Toronto] film scene or predominantly male film scene in the world, [but] I think I probably leaned more into charm than I otherwise might have. I felt like the only way I’m going to get away with this woman-ness, and my concerns and my issues, and the things I’m drawn to is if I m...
I think that we were all tuned to the issues well before #MeToo. I was shocked at how widespread it was suddenly and I was shocked that abusive men lost their jobs. I did not believe that a collective outpouring of stories and upset would get guys fired. I didn’t believe that this is something we learn over and over again in society: actually you c...
Mar 19, 2024 · Select films will also screen at Laemmle Theaters in LA on May 7-8 and 13-14. Rozema will be present for Q&As at select Toronto, New York and Los Angeles screenings. Patricia Rozema’s films, though varied in style and content, have always been marked by a humane and tender sensibility.
Mar 15, 2022 · I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, the Prix de la Jeunesse winner at Cannes, captured attention for Rozema’s charming tale of aspiring photographer Polly (Sheila McCarthy) an innocent loner who takes a secretarial job with a Toronto art gallery run by alluring curator Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon).
Feb 29, 2024 · TIFF Lightbox has programmed a spotlight of Patricia Rozema’s work, A Certain Slant of Light: The Films of Patricia Rozema. The special series runs through March and Rozema will be in person for select screenings, including for her own programmed film, Ingmar Bergman’s Persona.
