The Men's Room
A group of Norwegian men get together weekly to sing, but they are mainly there for the friendship and the drinking. We follow the group as they prepare to open for Black Sabbath at a rock festival. The film is very funny and I had to keep reminding myself that it was a documentary and not a work of fiction.
The men have agreed they will sing at each other's funerals but they are unprepared when the first loss it their conductor who dies just a few days before their big performance.
Powell River's men's choir sang before the movie. Their conductor invited men in the audience to join them on Monday evenings "where there is no audition required and they only take your pulse once".
I expected this one to be sad, and it was. And the saddest thing is that this scenario takes place all over Canada and it is not restricted First Nations people.
Rosie is a young, pregnant woman who has fled an abusive encounter with her partner.Áila finds Rosie barefoot and crying on the street and takes her home and attempts to get her help.
Alan, played wonderfully by Bill Nighy, has lost a son; he walked out in the middle of a Scrabble game and hasn't been heard from since. Alan has another son, Peter, but the two have a less than ideal relationship. Since losing his son, Alan spends most of his time playing online Scrabble, where he hopes to find that his missing son is also playing.
The Sometimes Always Never refers to what you should do with the buttons on a 3-button suit jacket.