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The Oxbow Cure
''The Oxbow Cure'' is a 2013 Canadian independent film directed by Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas. It stars writer Claudia Dey as Lena, a woman who moves away from the city to a remote cottage in an attempt to heal herself and escape from her past. The film premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival in the Independent Visions Competition on April 12, 2013 and had a limited theatrical release in Canada on August 23, 2013. Plot Lena is a middle-aged woman who has recently been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. In an attempt to come to terms with her transforming body, she leaves her home in the city and her ailing father to begin a new life at a remote cottage in Northern Ontario. There she begins to create an interior routine while exploring the natural world encircling the cottage. Lena learns of her father’s death and mourns the loss from afar. Later, she watches as an emaciated figure hobbles across the frozen lake outside her cottage. She locks the door and tries to push ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonah Lewis
Yonah Lewis (born March 2, 1986) is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter, who collaborates on most of his work with Calvin Thomas (director), Calvin Thomas.James Adams"Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas: filmmakers" ''The Globe and Mail'', September 9, 2011. The duo are most noted for their 2019 film ''White Lie (film), White Lie'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture, Best Motion Picture, and garnered the duo nominations for Canadian Screen Award for Best Director, Best Director and Canadian Screen Award for Best Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards. The duo, both alumni of Sheridan College, released their debut feature film ''Amy George'' in 2011. They followed up with ''The Oxbow Cure'' in 2013, and ''Spice It Up'' in 2018, before releasing ''White Lie''. In addition to their Canadian Screen Award nominations, the duo also won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Vancouv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |