The Room

Writer/Director Chris Stanton returns to SummerWorks with Elora Gorge a quiet, insightful piece about a small town captivated by a corpse discovered in the local woods. The fact that the dead man is naked and died by drowning despite being miles away from any body of water only adds to the intrigue. If this set up sounds familiar, it's because it's the basis for a popular urban legend that was also incorporated into Mordichai Richler's Barney's Version.

Stanton wisely avoids following through with the urban legend's reveal, instead using the enigmatic deceased as more of a poetic image...

Carlos Gozalez-Vio, Carlos Diaz, Dov Mickelson in Elora Gorge; photo: Aviva Armour-Ostroff