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High praise for art-house director Atom Egoyan's adaptation of Russell Banks' novel about a town that loses all its children in a school bus crash.
The ambiguity in this case is necessary, and the fact that we are never given a final solution to the mystery of what happened to the bus is central to Russell Banks' and Egoyan's premise that it is the nature of some tragedies to be incomprehensible--better to spend our energies fighting the evils we ourselves make than to rail at the unfeeling universe.
Though it has flaws (Egoyan's decision to romanticize the father-daughter incest blunted the force of the ending), The Sweet Hereafter has none of the insufferable smugness found in so much indie film in this Sundance era.
Egoyan has invented a delicious character--Hiditch's celebrity French chef mom--for his wife, the marvelous Arsinée Khanjian, and she gives the movie a jolt of energy whenever she pops up on TV screens or in Hiditch's memory.
Egoyan's best films have tricky textures: They double and triple back on themselves in ways that play against the characters' bland visages and the often sterile settings.
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