North of Normal (2023)

Directed by

Carly Stone

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A girl grows up in the remote Canadian wilderness with her free-spirited mother. As she gets older, she begins to question the isolated life she has always known.

introspectivereflectiveslow-burncontemplativegroundednostalgicearthyquietly intensepoignant

What happens

North of Normal is a 2022 Canadian drama film, directed by Carly Stone. Based on the 2014 memoir of the same name by Cea Sunrise Person, the film centres on her unconventional childhood living in the wilderness as the daughter of a hippie mother. The film's cast includes Sarah Gadon, Amanda Fix, Robert Carlyle, River Price-Maenpaa, James D'Arcy and Benedict Samuel. The film was shot in 2021 in Northern Ontario, primarily in and around Sudbury, North Bay and Mattawa. The film premiered in the Contemporary World Cinema program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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