State Street
Chicago, Illinois

1967, Allan King, Canada, 100 min.
“★★★★ A very special sort of film.”
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“WARRENDALE is so moving, so fascinating and fine...It is not a study, it is not propaganda. It is an experience, passionate and compassionate.”
—Stanley Kauffman, The Nation

Once controversial, soon classic, this landmark documentary was commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which then banned it from television for thirty years. WARRENDALE went on to win the International Critics Prize at Cannes and to move Jean Renoir to declare King “a great artist.” The film focuses on a treatment center for emotionally disturbed children that uses experimental and unorthodox techniques, chiefly involving close physical contact and unrestrained venting of emotions such as grief and rage. Filmed with extraordinarily intimate access, WARRENDALE is neither a clinical study nor an evaluation of the methods used; it is an immersive and sometimes shattering emotional journey.

Official Website: http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/warrendale

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