The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
This film documents the effects of
a tragic bus accident on the population of a small town.
The Egyptian born director, now Canadian, Atom Egoyan divided film critics and
cinephiles in two camps: two who loved his films and those who admire them but
not get into them because of his phantasmagorias. With his greatest success The Sweet Hereafter, Egoyan received an
Oscar nomination and won much respect from film enthusiasts. The film is even
on the 1000 Greatest Films of
All Time and the 1001 Movies You
Should See Before You Die lists. Voted as the fourth most important
Canadian film of all time let’s discuss The
Sweet Hereafter.
