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Passionflower is the first feature film from Canadian writer-director Shelagh Carter and producer Polly Washburn. On the brink of puberty in 1962 suburban Winnipeg, Sarah Matthews is increasingly challenged and confused by her mother’s instability and sexual power. While her father refuses to acknowledge that the family is fracturing under the stress of …

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(Jump to Reviews) PRESS COVERAGE From The Winnipeg Free Press (Winnipeg, MB, October 2012) — Director Came Full Circle with Family Film: Local writer-director Shelagh Carter had to steel herself to examine her troubled relationship with her mother in her film Passionflower, on now at Cinematheque. But there was a symmetry …

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