yiHORT FILm R€VI€UJr Film Arts own son fails to reveal his emotive qualities. The Music Box Dancer Pierre-Marc is also an enigma, though his articulation of "fraternity, a human p. Peter Kiviloo d. Peter Kiviloo sc. Peter Kivi- loo, Tina Soomet ed. Tina Soomet d.o.p. Alar dimension to being a politician — some­ Kivilo sd. Ao Loo mus. Frank Mills, Michael thing joyous about it" comes very close Root grip Lembitu Ristsoo l.p. Marie Fennell, to revealing an aspect of Parti Quebe­ Ray Conn col. 16mm running time20 min. p.c. cois nationalism that English Canada Cinex Films, has difficulty understanding. He, too, says nothing about his decision to enter Music Box Dancer is a short drama then leave medicine, and nothing about produced and directed by Peter Kiviloo his own family life. He confines per­ which deals in a touching and intelligent sonality and actions to political state­ way with the effect of divorce on the ments about . To die in politics relationship between a parent and a child as his father did is a noble thing. One who have become separated from each wishes there were more probing ques­ other. tions about father-son and brotherly The story is about the reunion of nine- relations. year-old Rachel, who lives in Toronto, with her father who lives in England, For But he and Daniel Jr. are directing the most of the film we hear and see from camera, not Kramer; and in political Rachel's point of view, Rachel begins her documentary one must take what the 461 Church Street Toronto- subject chooses to reveal. Because a narration, as most nine-year-olds would, with hopes and wishes about her father Ontario-Cdnddd sophisticated media presence is a pre­ requisite for contemporary politicians, that are completely loving and enthusias­ there are no surprise revelations before tic, but which are also, sadly, not very Telephones: the camera's innocent eye. Having re­ realistic. As she waits for her father to 9^-0181 vealed little of themselves, the brothers arrive and watches her music box dancer are satisfied with the film. turn slowly she thinks, "He's coming just to see me," and, "I want to be with him 952-0182 Has Kramer made too much of the forever!" In the beginning the music box convenient dichotomy between the dancer symbolizes this fanciful ideal. Johnson brothers and the peculiar na­ ture of Quebec politics? Quebec's am­ But dad hasn't come just to see her. He bivalence and contradictory inner life has business to do, and other people to piDV€RTmn