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Love & Human Remains

Country: Canada, Language: English, 100 mins

  • Director: Denys Arcand
  • Writer: Brad Fraser
  • Producer: Roger Frappier; Richard Lalonde

CGiii Comment

Steeped in its own self-importance, this film dragged, crawled and grasped at a concocted conclusion...whereas the play was vibrant, lively and hugely entertaining.

Sometimes, theatre does not travel to the silver screen - here is the evidence.

And, like Fraser's other play-turned-film, the acting is rather more miss than hit.

If you can't do it justice - keep it in the theatre. It's really that simple.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Set in a dreary urban landscape of an anonymous Canadian city, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is a dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and Candy, a book reviewer who is also David's ex-lover. David and Candy's lives are entangled with those of David's friends (a busboy, a psychic dominatrix, and a misogynistic civil-servant) and Candy's dates (a male bartender and a lesbian schoolteacher). Meanwhile, a serial killer menaces the concrete and asphalt neighbourhood in which David and Candy live.

Cast & Characters

Thomas Gibson as David;
Ruth Marshall as Candy;
Cameron Bancroft as Bernie;
Mia Kirshner as Benita;
Joanne Vannicola as Jerri;
Matthew Ferguson as Kane;
Rick Roberts as Robert;
Aidan Devine as Sal;
Robert Higden as The Editor;
Sylvain Morin as The Drag Queen;
Ben Watt as The Native Boy;
Karen Young as The Singer;
Serge Houde as The Cowboy;
Alex Wylding as The First Victim;
Polly Shannon as The Second Victim