Boost, a first solo feature from Montreal director Darren Curtis, is such a slick piece of filmmaking you may overlook the fact that it’s also a trenchant tale about immigrants. In fact, the closest the film comes to a “message” moment is when one character tells a very funny, very offensive joke about two immigrants competing to be the most Canadian. Jahmil French and Nabil Rajo star as Anthony and Hakeem, high-school students in Montreal. (Watch Hakeem as he inhales the smell of a pile of ill-gotten 20-dollar bills; the look on his face says he’s just learned they don’t smell like much.) It’s a shame, because these two very different movies represent bold new visions in Canadian cinema.

Source: National Post March 02, 2018 19:30 UTC