Premiering at TIFF next month, Bruce McDonald’s forthcoming “Trigger” has us intrigued. When we talked to the the maverick Canadian director at SXSW, he talked to us about the film which finds itself at the crossroads of “Before Sunrise,” “Before Sunset” and oddly enough, “My Dinner With Andre.”
“It’s the story of two rock chicks (Tracy Wright and Molly Parker) — it’s kinda like ‘My Dinner With Andre’ with a few more locations. It’s like girls night out. We put on this benefit show at the Mod club in Toronto. The idea is that they meet up after many years of not talking to each other and bad hostiles and they go out on the town in Toronto, ” McDonald said noting that many of the new Toronto bands featured in the movie — Lioness, Heavy Filth, Foxfire, One Hundred Dollar Duets and The Ghost Is Dancing — were handpicked from Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning who has a longstanding relationship with the filmmaker (a Canning-lead version of BSS also scored McDonald’s “Tracey Fragements” in 2008).
The first look at the film in the clip below certainly bears out the comparisons. It’s nice to see the underrated Parker get some decent screentime and it looks like it’s going to be a showcase for the actresses. The film already has Canadian distribution lined up with E1, but no word on the United States or Europe but that should change following the fest. [Twitch]
