U-TURN (The Girl In Blue)

Event Details

Event type: All Ages

Director: George Kaczender

Featuring: David Selby, Maud Adams, Gay Rowan

English, 99 minutes, Rating Not Available

Released the same summer of 1973 as BETWEEN FRIENDS and PAPERBACK HERO, better-remembered, formative English-Canadian feature films, U-TURN fell unjustly into the margins of the margins.  A young Montreal lawyer on a business trip spies a beautiful young woman on a ferry, as it pulls away, leaving him at the dock. Pursuing her, Scott (David Selby, then of TV’s Dark Shadows) risks his live-in relationship, his career, his comfortable life for a woman he’s never met (played by Maud Adams from THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN and OCTOPUSSY). Directed by George Kaczender (IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN) from a script by Kingston writer Douglas Bowie (Empire, Inc.; Obsessed), with the Smiths Falls/Burritts Rapids area as the verdant location of the callow hero’s fantasy, U-TURN (released internationally as THE GIRL IN BLUE) veers from comedy to pathos in exploring the uncomfortable realm of male anxiety.

This special screening includes an extended Q+A with screenwriter Doug Bowie, filmmaker Clarke Mackey and Piers Handling, the newly retired, former CEO of TIFF to discuss U-TURN and the changing landscape of Canadian film since its initial release.

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