The Narrows (2008) (TIFF08)
The Narrows (2008, written by Tatiana Blackington based upon Tim McLoughlin’s novel; directed by François Velle) was blehhhh. Typical American “kid-gets-mixed-up-with-the-wrong-crowd” (albeit, the wrong crowd is the mob) coming-of-age story. It stars Kevin Zegers, whose excellent performance in Transamerica led me to expect more than what I got from The Narrows. It looked and felt like a crappy episode of a generic show that I could have watched (rather, changed the channel from) on HDTV.
The kid wants to go to school for photography because he is so artsy and sensitive. There he meets a girl and falls in love; this greatly clashes with his ties to his neighborhood and “the old country”. The rest of the story you can probably guess. This was not the type of film that I expect to see at TIFF.
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