Red Deer (2000)

Directed by

Anthony Couture

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two women check into a motel in a small Alberta city. One becomes friends with a local woman but is suspected of a crime when she disappears. The other starts working as a phone sex operator and bonds with a lonely bookstore owner.

down-to-earthsubduedquietsomberintimateslow-pacedgrittylonely

What happens

Red Deer is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anthony Couture and released in 2000. Set in Red Deer, Alberta, the film centres on two visitors to the city and their interactions with a group of local residents. Otavie (Awaovieyi Agie) and Carol (Loreya Montayne) both check into a motel around the same time. Otavie befriends Sarah (Amber Rothwell), but becomes suspected of a crime by her father Jerry (Kurt Max Runte) and boyfriend David (James Hutson) when she unexpectedly runs away; Carol takes a job as a phone sex operator, and develops something of a relationship with Nigel (Joe Procyk), the lonely owner of a local bookstore. Couture, a native of Red Deer, made the film as his masters thesis while studying filmmaking at the University of British Columbia. The film premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian First Feature Film jury. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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