The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
<div><i>Part of <a href="https://www.screeningroomkingston.com/bleak-week/">Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair</a>, a weeklong festival spotlighting some of the greatest films from around the world that explore the darkest sides of humanity.</i></div><div><br></div>Atom Egoyan's adaptation of Russell Banks's novel follows a small Canadian town in the aftermath of a school bus accident that has taken many of its children. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes and the film that established Egoyan as a major international voice, it remains one of the great works of Canadian cinema — and one of the few films to treat collective grief as a subject worthy of formal seriousness. A big-city lawyer, played by Ian Holm, arrives offering a lawsuit as a container for that grief, but his presence only widens the fractures that were already there.DramaPT1H52MRated 14A2026-06-15Ian Holm
Sarah Polley
Tom McCamus
Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan
Camelia Frieberg
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)"The Sweet Hereafter (1997)"Showtimes
June 15, 6:00 pm
June 16, 8:50 pm
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