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More than a documentary, this film is a document, about a reporting team trying to cover a series of hippie protests in the city of Yorkville, Canada, in 1967, which engages with a group of students, eager to convey their opinions about the education system and the way of social organization in which they live and ends up surpassed by events, accused of encouraging protests, to which the police reacted with arrests and repression, and being forced to abandon the reportage and return to Montreal, against their will .

Taking what he managed to film and through a lot of editing work, Mort Ransen built a documentary that, much more than showing the protests, conveys an image of a group of young people committed, innocent, dissatisfied with the society in which they live but without concrete objectives, but also of the total lack of understanding and inability of the authorities and many adults to deal with this dissatisfaction, either by creating goals for young people or channeling their motivation positively.

A portrait of a time of change in which the generation gap seems deeper than usual..

A very straightforward film about a group of NFB documentarist as they follow a group of hippies revolting against the incoming Vietnam war. Things go astray with the media trying to frame the NFB documentarist as the root cause of the problem AND things cut abruptly

Very interesting. Its much less controlled AND almost like a bunch of film forced into one. There is literally no story in the film. In fact ,at one point they just talk how should the film be filmed. Though, If I would describe the entire experience of watching this film, I would like how that lady from the follow-up documentary the Summer of 1967 (1994). Its about a bunch of kids who barely gets the idea of what they fighting for BUT essentially would help the betterment of everyone involved.

It is an interesting artifact that I feel that the modern twitter activist are very well in. A fight for change that they do not really have the best handle BUT is all in all well meaning AND would change the world for the better.

An overlooked gem.

A faded love letter to teen-hood, Christopher's Movie Matinée (1967) is a charming coming-of-age film framed by the irresistibly iconic fashion, music and mindset of the era.

Shot in Yorkville, Toronto (then Canada's counter-culture capital) in the famed summer of love, a group of fourteen teenagers get to grips with a changing world.

The kids are so honest, endearing and instantly lovable, and the relationships they develop with the filmmakers really make this movie unique.

Director/Editor Mort Ransen does an incredible job shooting both a stylish and progressive time capsule on 16mm film, and I hope this intimate and honest movie resonates with you as it did with me two generations after it was made.