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TIFF shows respect to Winnipegger, but...
Reel Life / Randall King
THE Toronto International Film Festival fin ally showed real respect to Guy Maddin by giving him an award for Best Canadian Film at this year's fest.
But the fest has always stopped short of showing the true respect that comes with opening the festival with a Maddin film, let alone a made-in-Winnipeg film.
That has never happened in the fest's 31-year history, although the opening night gala always presents a Canadian film. Typically, the fest alternates from year to year by opening the fest with a Quebec film or an Ontario film, although there have been occasional interlopers from British Columbia (The Last Wedding, 2001) and even Nunavut (The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, 2006).
Given the hindsight of seeing Maddin's My Winnipeg deemed the best Canadian film at the fest, this should have been...