Do you enjoy watching people ice skate? More to the point, do you enjoy watching people ice skate for ten minutes accompanied by rinky-dink piano plunking and twist music? If your answer to either question is 'yes', then Patinoire is definitely your film. To his credit, director Gilles Carle somehow convinced the National Film Board of Canada to ante up for some Technicolor stock, so while his film is pretty boring for those who of us have absolutely no interest in ice skating, it looks great nonetheless- a bit like a particularly well preserved home movie, but one shot on 16mm instead of Super 8.
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