KCFF Cross-Cuts: Marc-André Grondin (C.R.A.Z.Y. 2005)

KCFF Cross-Cuts give you the opportunity to get to know the storytellers and creators of the films in the festival this year. In this sesion, moderator Kelly-Anne Vander Meer chats with Marc-André Grondin, star of Jean-Marc Vallée’s 2005 film C.R.A.Z.Y. playing as a retrospective screening during KCFF22. Get your tickets: https://kingcanfilmfest.com/2022/crazy/ Christmas 2021, Canadian film lost one of its boldest and most cherished talents when Jean-Marc Vallée passed away suddenly in his chalet in Québec. To honour the filmmaker whose work we’ve been thrilled to present at the festival several times, this year’s edition of KCFF includes a special retrospective screening of the director’s second feature and his first to demonstrate all he could do, one whose match of originality, stylistic audacity and emotional poignancy he’d repeat in future Hollywood hits like DALLAS BUYERS CLUB and WILD. Thanks to Vallée’s astonishing control of his medium and the explosive performances by Marc-André Grondin and Michel Côté as a young man and his father struggling to come to terms with each other in ‘70s Montreal, C.R.A.Z.Y. remains a coming-of-age story like no other. Kingston audiences voted it the KCFF’s People’s Choice Award in 2006.