Why is HCL the best Canadian film ever made?
BRUCE McDONALD: Ah, it’s always nice to hear that phrase. You know, I think every once in a while all the forces come together and they’re just right. Right time, right place, right guys, just everything kind of works. Partly the architecture of it — the Dirty Beatles, the working class Spinal Tap — maybe the architecture of the characters, they’re very archetypal. It’s just a great love story between these two guys, a deep friendship, and there’s a great chemistry between Callum [Keith Rennie] and Hugh [Dillon]. Just a great natural off-screen chemistry. They had this really intense curiosity, a mutual respect for each other coming from the different worlds -– music and film. So it was [author Michael] Turner’s design and the chemistry of these guys, going downriver to the heart of darkness. There’s something fundamental about the journey, it goes back to whatever Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn, Conrad –- not to get lofty -– but a lot of people over the years have been very generous. How has it
