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Director
Aaron Wilson
Cast
Khan Chittenden,
Robert Menzies,
Edwina Wren,
Mok Chi-Yee
Genre
Adventure,
Drama,
War
Two men must fight for survival when an Australian soldier takes refuge under the canopied jungles of Singapore during the violent Japanese invasion in World War II. Jim is lost, injured and defenseless in a hostile, tropical world, hunted by Japanese troops. He then encounters Seng, a Singapore-Chinese resistance fighter.
The New York Times by Nicole Herrington
The strength of Canopy is its filmmaking. With this haunting work, Mr. Wilson, joined by the talented cinematographer Stefan Duscio and the sound designers Rodney Lowe and Nic Buchanan, has made a promising debut.
Variety by Eddie Cockrell
The aural landscape here is key, as Wilson’s strategy is to create a visual theater of the mind in which the majority of the action is heard and not seen.
The Hollywood Reporter
The film is remarkably visceral. You can feel the stickiness of the tropics, the drench of perspiration, and the ever-present fear.
The Dissolve by David Ehrlich
Canopy most convincingly creates the illusion of war when it narrows its eyes on the two men trying to endure it, and the urgency on their underlit faces is more transportive than the canned sounds of mortar fire.
The Hollywood Reporter by Megan Lehmann
The film is remarkably visceral. You can feel the stickiness of the tropics, the drench of perspiration, and the ever-present fear.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Chittenden and Tzu-yi are expressive actors, but, like the film itself, are hamstrung by the project's self-imposed confines.
Village Voice by Aaron Hillis
Despite Wilson’s early control and aesthetic confidence, there isn’t a single scripted idea of weight or emotionality that pays off.
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