{"id":29054,"date":"2012-04-29T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=29054"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:55:25","slug":"hot-docs-tchoupitoulas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/29\/hot-docs-tchoupitoulas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs: Tchoupitoulas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/29\/hot-docs-tchoupitoulas\/tchoupitoulas_5-470x264-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29061\" title=\"Tchoupitoulas_5.470x264\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/04\/Tchoupitoulas_5.470x2641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/04\/29\/hot-docs-tchoupitoulas\/tchoupitoulas_5-470x264\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29058\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tchoupitoulas <\/em>is about what happens in a city at night: its quirks, its personalities, its sounds. It\u2019s about what happens in New Orleans specifically, a pretty good place to explore these variables. But the excitement of the night in <em>Tchoupitoulas<\/em> is magnified by the fact that it is mostly viewed through the eyes of three young brothers who, along with their faithful pup Buttercup, have taken the ferry across from Algiers in search of adventure. \u00a0The fairly well-played out Bourbon Street nightlife (drunks, preachers, exotic dancers) is suddenly seen from a new angle \u2013 literally slightly below our eye level, and with a curiosity and excitement that can be hard for an adult to conjure, but that\u2019s surprisingly easy to fall in with. When an evangelist speaks to the chatty, thoughtful youngest of the treasures awaiting us in heaven, there is a genuine pause for consideration. But with the loot of a street parade falling from the sky, the bare backsides in the windows, and the never-ending soundtrack of street bands and drunk revelers, it\u2019s not hard to feel like you\u2019re already.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Like Cinderella, the boys can only stay at the ball til midight, when the last ferry leaves. But when William, who wants to be \u201can NFL player, then a lawyer, then an architect,\u201d loses his glass slipper, the brothers\u2019 mixture of giddiness, curiosity, and bravado reaches new heights.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tchoupitoulas <\/em>is delightful. It is delightful in the way it peeks in on nightlife \u2013 on burlesque dancers, on street sweepers, on disgruntled caf\u00e9 employees \u2013 but it is also delightful in its tone. When talking about <em>Tchoupitoulas, <\/em>the word that comes up most often from reviewers, audiences, and even the filmmakers themselves, is wonderment. This wonderment has a very specific quality \u2013 it is the wonderment of a beautiful memory. Scenes unfold as if they are being remembered; sometimes fuzzy, sometimes in flashes, sometimes with the sounds of the street, or a funny detail of a sign, coming to the centre of our attention.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotdocs.ca\/film\/title\/tchoupitoulas\">Tchoupitoulas<\/a> <\/em>screens tomorrow (Monday, April 30) at the Isabel Bader theatre (free for students and seniors!) and Saturday, May 5 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tchoupitoulas is about what happens in a city at night: its quirks, its personalities, its sounds. It\u2019s about what happens in New Orleans specifically, a pretty good place to explore these variables. 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