Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney - Assemblage
Once upon a time, there was a boy from Baie-Comeau.
That boy would become a man of the people and a furnace of political ambition, destined for the bright lights of our nation’s capital.
Haunted by the ghost of John Diefenbaker and the disembodied voice of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, he sets out to accomplish the Progressive Conservative dream: winning over Quebec, uniting a fragmented country and creating fiscally responsible prosperity for all.
In a genre-bending collage of VHS-ravaged Canadiana, filmmaker Matthew Rankin remixes and reimagines 80,000 pieces of archive, chronicling our 18th prime minister’s crash course with destiny as he clobbers Joe Clark and ushers in a new kind of conservatism for the 1980s. What emerges is a fever dream of politics, propaganda and pop culture as hypnotic as its subject.
Behold the unstoppable ascent of a generational political genius who charmed a nation into oblivion.
Ladies and gentlemen, Brian Mulroney.
That boy would become a man of the people and a furnace of political ambition, destined for the bright lights of our nation’s capital.
Haunted by the ghost of John Diefenbaker and the disembodied voice of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, he sets out to accomplish the Progressive Conservative dream: winning over Quebec, uniting a fragmented country and creating fiscally responsible prosperity for all.
In a genre-bending collage of VHS-ravaged Canadiana, filmmaker Matthew Rankin remixes and reimagines 80,000 pieces of archive, chronicling our 18th prime minister’s crash course with destiny as he clobbers Joe Clark and ushers in a new kind of conservatism for the 1980s. What emerges is a fever dream of politics, propaganda and pop culture as hypnotic as its subject.
Behold the unstoppable ascent of a generational political genius who charmed a nation into oblivion.
Ladies and gentlemen, Brian Mulroney.