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Radiant City - DVD/La cité radieuse - DVD
Résumé
Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal comedy, joins journalist Jim Brown on an
outing to the suburbs. Venturing into territory both familiar and foreign,
they turn the documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid account of life
in The Late Suburban Age.
Urban sprawl is eating the planet. Across the continent the landscape is
being levelled - blasted clean of distinctive features and overlaid with
zombie monoculture. Politicians call it growth. Developers call it business.
The Moss family call it home.
While Evan Moss zones out in commuter traffic, Ann boils over in her
dream kitchen and the kids play sinister games amidst the fresh foundations of
monster houses.
A chorus of cultural prophets provide insight on the spectacle. James
Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere, rails against
the brutalizing aesthetic of strip malls. Philosopher Joseph Heath fears the
soul-eating suburbs but admits they offer good value for money. And urban
planner Beverly Sandalack dares to ask, Why can't we walk anywhere anymore?
Burns and Brown rummage through a toybox of cultural references, from
Jane Jacobs to The Sopranos, to create a provocative reflection on
why we live the way we do. Riffing off sitcoms and reality TV, they play fast
and loose with a range of cinematic devices to consider what happens when
cities get sick and mutate.
The DVD includes the original English version of
the film and the English version with French
subtitles.
2009, 85 min 34 s
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