Female Film Critics 24/375
Even if you had a wonderful freshman year roommate, I’m sure the “what-if” questions have crossed your mind as you’re settling into your new shared space. “What if we have nothing in common?” “What if they take my stuff?” “What if they expose my secrets?” “What if they set my things on fire?” In Chandler Levack’s Roommates, you will see all of these “what-ifs” play out in wildly unexpected ways.
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There was a lot of wind-up for Chandler Levack’s new film, Mile End Kicks, a coming-of-age tale mixed with a bit of romantic comedy. It doesn’t quite live up to all the hype, but it’s an okay story with strong performances and great music. Whether it has resonance with young women as a rite-of-passage story remains to be seen — a few fully three-dimensional characters in the protagonist’s orbit could have helped.
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First-time feature film director Chandler Levack delivers a nostalgia-driven look at the early 2000s with her love letter to video stores and cinephiles in I Like Movies. The crowd-pleasing comedy premiered at TIFF and was named one of Canada’s Top Ten films of 2022 and is set to open in cinemas on March 10. At the Kingston Canadian Film Festival, Levack sat down to discuss everything from telling the story from a young male’s point of view, how her career as a film journalist has informed the stories she tells to which recent films by female filmmakers are must-sees.
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