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Darkest Miriam (2024)

Darkest Miriam poster
Directed by
Naomi Jaye
Genre
drama, romance, mystery
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
15
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A librarian named Miriam lives a withdrawn life in Toronto, still grieving her father's death. Strange things start happening at the library where she works, and she begins a relationship with a Slovenian immigrant named Janko. He helps her open up to new experiences.

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What happens

Darkest Miriam is a 2024 Canadian drama film, directed by Naomi Jaye. Adapted from Martha Baillie's novel The Incident Report, the film stars Britt Lower as Miriam, a librarian in Toronto who leads a closed-off, grief-stricken life after her father's death; amid a series of strange incidents at the library, she meets and begins a romance with Janko (Tom Mercier), a Slovenian immigrant who opens her up to new possibilities. The cast also includes Sook-Yin Lee, Jean Yoon, Jaimara Beals, Clyde Whitham, Susannah Hoffmann, Scott McCulloch, Igor Shamuilov, Joshua Odjick, Sarah Li Wen Du, Anita Yung, Peter Millard, Danté Prince, Scott Ryan Yamamura, Jamaal Grant, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, and Laura Afelskie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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