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The Bitter Ash is a Canadian drama film, directed by Larry Kent and released in 1963. [1] One of the first narrative feature films ever shot in Vancouver, [2] the film stars Alan Scarfe as Des, an unhappy blue collar man who is drawn into the city's counterculture underground, where he clashes with bohemian intellectual Colin (Philip Brown ...
The Bitter Ash: Directed by Larry Kent. With Alan Scarfe, Lynn Stewart, Philip Brown, Diane Griffith. Des's girlfriend Julie lies about pregnancy to avoid work, pressuring him to marry. Laurie's marriage to jobless writer Colin brings desperation.
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- Drama
- Larry Kent
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Kent’s brash film follows the sexual shenanigans of a young man torn between adult responsibility and the freedoms offered by the emerging counterculture. Set to a free jazz score and imbued with New Wave visual energy, The Bitter Ash announced itself as something new and vital in Canadian cinema.
Directed by Larry Kent. Des works at a boring job, and his girlfriend Julie is pressuring him to get married by claiming to be pregnant, so that she will not have to work. Laurie is living a life of quiet desperation with her husband Colin, an aspiring writer who refuses to look for a job.
- Larry Kent
Des works at a boring job, and his girlfriend Julie is pressuring him to get married by claiming to be pregnant, so that she will not have to work. Laurie is living a life of quiet desperation with her husband Colin, an aspiring writer who refuses to look for a job. Des meets Laurie while visiting a work-mate who is dying of leukemia. While they go for a drive, Laurie invites Des to a rent ...
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Schooled in theatre at UBC, Kent owed nothing to the NFB’s tradition of documentary, nor was he a child of CBC drama. As a film, THE BITTER ASHbears more resemblance to Robert Frank’s Beat classic PULL MY DAISYor John Cassavetes’ SHADOWS. It is an authentic Canadian Beat-cinema moment.
