
The Twentieth Century
Director: Matthew Rankin Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 2019
Starring: Brent Skagford, Catherine St-Laurent, Dan Beirne, Mikhaïl Ahooja, Sarianne Cormier
In celebration of the release of UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, we revisit director Matthew Rankin’s first feature film, the never theatrically released, 2019 TIFF Midnight Madness masterpiece THE TWENTIETH CENTURY! Winner of the Best Canadian Film at TIFF 2019 and a film destined to become a midnight cult sensation!
Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will first have to fight his personal obsessions and overcome the many obstacles he will encounter on his tortuous path to power.
*film will screen March 7th and 8th only