Round 6: Tossup 12
A director from this country watches his mother’s TV show LedgeMan in a “docu-fantasia” that also includes a scene of horse heads sticking out of a frozen river. This country’s fictional law S-14 allows parents to hospitalize their children in a 2014 film unusually shot in a 1:1 aspect ratio, titled Mommy. In a film by a director from this country, Max Renn exclaims “Long live the new flesh” after being brainwashed by a videotape. Directors from this country include Guy Maddin, Xavier Dolan, and a body horror pioneer who made Dead Ringers and Videodrome. A director from this country depicted a school shooting in the film Polytechnique and adapted Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” into the film Arrival. For 10 points, name this home country of David Cronenberg and Denis Villeneuve ■END■
ANSWER: Canada (The film in the first sentence is My Winnipeg.)
<McMaster A, Other Fine Arts> | Packet G - McMaster A, Notre Dame C, Rutgers A, NYU A
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