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Photo Coverage: On the TIFF Red Carpet for THE GRAND SEDUCTION

By: Sep. 09, 2013
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The cast of 'The Grand Seduction', directed by Don McKellar, just gathered on the TIFF red carpet for a special presentation of the film. Check out photos from the special event below!

A box office smash in its native Quebec, Jean-François Pouliot's 2003 film La grande séduction wowed critics at Cannes and won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance. Now, a decade later, the classic Canadian tale returns to the screen as an English-language remake, directed by Don McKellar and adapted by acclaimed filmmakers Ken Scott (Starbuck), who wrote the original, and Michael Dowse (The F Word, also screening at the Festival).

Substituting the quaint charm of a fishing village in rural Quebec with the rugged beauty of a tiny Newfoundland coastal community, The Grand Seduction charts the lengths to which the townsfolk will go to enchant a big-city visitor. Like many affected by the collapse of the fishing industry, residents of this once-thriving settlement are driven to seek employment in the city, or, worse, queue for government assistance. Their future begins to look brighter when a plastics manufacturer proposes to set up shop - until they learn that the contract calls for a resident doctor to serve the community's needs.

Enter Dr. Lewis (Taylor Kitsch), an ethically suspect cosmetic surgeon temporarily banished to the physician-starved seaside. In a riotous attempt to charm him - without revealing their plan - the villagers take up the doctor's beloved sport of cricket, and fall over themselves trying to persuade him that their seemingly sleepy hamlet is secretly a hotbed of cosmopolitan sophistication.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride



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