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Warrendale

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Canadian filmmaker Allan King made this cinéma vérité documentary over the course of five weeks at an Ontario group home for emotionally disturbed youths in 1966. The patients range from elementary school age to their late teens, and head administrator Dr. Martin Fischer's preferred technique for handling their sometimes violent emotional outbursts involves having orderlies hold the children to prevent them from lashing out and hurting themselves or others.

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Joe Morgenstern Newsweek 07/06/2022
A very nearly perfect documentary. Go to Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times 03/28/2013
3.5/5
Like the life it records, it simply exists, beyond criticism. Go to Full Review J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 03/28/2013
[A] striking cinema verite documentary. Go to Full Review Serge Daney Cahiers du Cinéma 10/03/2023
Because he takes his premise to the limit, King, surpassing the small, scattered beauties that would have satisfied less demanding filmmakers, achieves the rigor of observation. Go to Full Review Ann Birstein Vogue 05/28/2020
Warrendale is another shattering transcription of life as it is. Go to Full Review Penelope Houston The Spectator 07/06/2018
It is, undeniably, as compelling as it is painful to watch, and some close-up effects 'are extraordinary. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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04/18/2013 Yet again....I am immensely overwhelmed at the importance of Allan King's films, historically, cinematically, emotionally, and spiritually. See more 07/07/2011 Shockingly intimate Verite masterwork from Canadian maestro Allan King, focusing on the treatment of emotionally troubled kids at an experimental Toronto halfway house/mental hospital. See more 11/24/2009 'Warrendale' is the rarest sort of film these days: one which I saw weeks ago and left me entirely speechless. An incredible use of documentary, and a skin-crawling experience that's somehow both exhilirating (as form) and exhausting (in content). See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Canadian filmmaker Allan King made this cinéma vérité documentary over the course of five weeks at an Ontario group home for emotionally disturbed youths in 1966. The patients range from elementary school age to their late teens, and head administrator Dr. Martin Fischer's preferred technique for handling their sometimes violent emotional outbursts involves having orderlies hold the children to prevent them from lashing out and hurting themselves or others.
Director
Allan King
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 40m