Synopsis
After her boyfriend leaves town, Justine, depressed and unfulfilled, picks up her neglected guitar which takes her on a journey that gets her heart beating for the first time in years.
Heartbeat
2014 Directed by Andrea Dorfman
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I've been a fan of Andrea Dorfman for years. The Canadian director came out strong in the early 00s with two quirky, sexually subversive features that managed to be sweetly endearing instead of twee. However after her last film, Love that Boy, came out in 2003 there was a long period where Dorfman turned to animated shorts. It looked liked she had turned away from feature filmmaking until she announced Heartbeat, which played at TIFF in 2014, 11 years after her last film debuted.
Unfortunately Heartbeat feels like an extreme step back for Dorfman. The film follows hipster Justine who, after experiencing a panic attack at an open mic, loses her will to play music. After she watches her friend…
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