Warrendale (1967)

1h 41m
Running Time

June 7, 1967
Release Date

Warrendale (1967)

1h 41m
Running Time

June 7, 1967
Release Date

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This ground-breaking cinéma-vérité classic documents five weeks in the lives of twelve residents of a home for emotionally disturbed children. It is the first in the form that King later described as actuality drama. All the action is spontaneous and undirected, with neither interviews nor narration. The theme is the outrage of life. The children asked the filmmakers, Why is it that whenever pictures of us are put in the papers, our faces are blacked out. What is so awful about us that we cant be seen? They wanted to be filmed so that they could be seen.

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Release Date
June 7, 1967

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 41m

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mental illness
cinéma vérité
children's home
toronto
group home
youth mental health
teen mental health

Wiki.

Warrendale is a 1967 documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Allan King. It was originally produced for broadcast on CBC Television, but CBC refused to show it because King refused to edit out the film's copious profanity. The film was allowed to be shown only during festivals.

The film is a cinéma vérité look at the lives of emotionally disturbed children housed in a facility named Warrendale, in Rexdale, Ontario, at the time a Toronto suburb. The facility was considered innovative and met with approval when it first opened in December 1965. However, almost a year after it opened, it became the centre of several controversies in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and it was eventually closed. Founder John Brown was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislature from 1967 to 1971.

Warrendale won awards at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, and French director Jean Renoir declared King a great artist. The film won three Canadian Film Awards at the 19th Canadian Film Awards in 1967: Film of the Year, Best Feature Film and Best Direction.In 2002, Warrendale was honoured by the Masterworks program of the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada.

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