A portrait of and tribute to the author who, with the publication of Barometer Rising in 1941, set a precedent in Canadian literature by writing about Canadian topics and places and, in so doing, paved the way for a thriving national literary movement. Through the use of still photographs, archival footage and interviews, this documentary traces seven decades of MacLennan's public and private life--as a young boy in Nova Scotia, brought up in a strict Presbyterian family of Scottish descent, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, as a professor at McGill University, and as the author of seven novels and numerous essays. Also featured in the film are several readings from MacLennan's work.
Robert A. Duncan
Director
McQueen74%
Public Speaking70%
Directed by John Ford70%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
A Plastic Ocean75%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
The Class of ‘9271%
Love, Antosha74%
The Cheshire Murders65%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Above Majestic73%
My Mom Jayne80%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Sherman's March67%
Hawking76%
Sidney70%
Black Sheep72%
21 Up74%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish67%
