Small Town Murder Songs
Canada
2010
75 Min
Color
English
Synopsis
A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.
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David M. Dibble
7May12
The soundtrack was the best part, and fit the film well.. The story was lacking but the acting was fine, I wish Stormare would've shoved Plimpton in a wood chipper in the end.
Cinematic
25Apr12
This has everything that I hate in indie movies. The lazy skeleton of a story (never a compelling one), the absurd overuse of slo-mo to give the illusion of a personal touch (ha!). But the worst thing when watching this garbage (besides the squandering of good actors) is the omnipresent feeling that it has absolutely nothing to tell.
Gillo Sartori
5Dec11
Well made. Director said that Atom Egoyan's suggestion, in particular for editing, illuminated him. Film presents a mood rather then a story. Snow and music are very important.
asuraf
29Jul11
Low budget, independent Canadian mood piece, mixing the drudgery of small town provincial life with police murder procedural, religious hypocrisy, and haunting power folk ballads. The inclusion of the always welcome Peter Stormare (as a rage-a-hol, shlubby police chief obsessed with a murder, amongst other things) is one of the obvious nods to "Fargo", a lofty target, but not entirely unattainable.
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NYAFF, Film Quarterly and Lots More
By David Hudson on June 30, 2011
Roundup of the New York Asian Film Festival, the new issue of Film Quarterly, and more.
TIFF 2010: Peter Stormare And Jill Hennessy Sing SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS
By Twitchfilm.com on December 17, 2011
The sophomore feature from writer-director Ed Gass-Donnelly, Small Town Murder Songs stars Peter Stormare as a cop with a violent past trying to forge a new life for himself in a small, Mennonite town
Watch A Clip From Ed Gass-Donnelly's SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS
By Twitchfilm.com on December 17, 2011
Freshly arrived on DVD in the US, Peter Stormare stars in Ed Gass-Donnelly’s crime thriller Small Town Murder Songs. Critically praised following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
Review: SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS
By Twitchfilm.com on October 17, 2011
Rural Ontario gets an epic soundtrack in Ed Gass-Donnelly’s hybrid of police procedural and inky character study. Capturing the Bruce Peninsula area, the Mennonite-heavy area north of Waterloo with apocalyptic
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