Stuart Clarfield

With a consistency that defies explanation, this low budget dramatic feature is drawn to the struggle of teenagers to assert their own identities in an oppressive, over-regulated society. Like “Nobody Waved Goodbye”, Stuart Clarfield’s first feature focuses on a Toronto teenager who turns his back on his family in an ill-fated attempt to bust out and become his own person. Also similar to Don Owen’s seminal sixties feature is Parade’s sense of ineluctable fatalism; angered with Dad and detached from Mom, the protagonist takes a ramshackle hotel room at the the Hotel Isabella where he meets a hooker from Parry Sound and tumbles into the cocaine trade. Lacking either motivation or plans for tomorrow, his sunny sense of freedom soon darkens into a quintessentially Canadian nightmare of retribution”. Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF Canadian Perspectives, Geoff Pevere… (más)