CANADA
Nanaimo Daily News
Laura Kane / The Canadian Press
December 3, 2014
TORONTO – Canadian director Terrance Odette’s new film “Fall” is based on a painful incident from his youth, when he says a Catholic priest “crossed a line” with him.
But rather than portray the priest at the centre of the movie as a flat-out villain, Odette chose to make him more ambiguous. As played by Michael Murphy, Father Sam is a mysterious, almost tragic figure, whose memories seem elusive and whose guilt is never certain.
“I don’t think we’re going to get anywhere by having a lynching. We’re not fixing any of these problems by doing this,” Odette said in a recent interview in Toronto.
“There should be a point where we’re going, ‘This is bad behaviour. It’s unacceptable behaviour.’ But is the person bad and unacceptable themselves, or do they need help? Or should they just be kept away? There’s all kinds of ways of looking at it.”
Creating a film that raised more questions than it answered was of utmost importance to Odette, the award-winning filmmaker behind 1999’s “Heater” and 2002’s “Saint Monica,” which also explored Catholicism.
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