Felicia's Journey (1999)

The Sweet Hereafter, an account of the grief experienced by a rural community after a schoolbus crash, was Atom Egoyan's breakthrough film. Until then, his output had been confined to the arthouse ghetto, but The Sweet Hereafter secured the Canadian director an Oscar nomination - and a much wider audience. Felicia's Journey, produced by Mel Gibson's Icon label, is another literary adaptation (from William Trevor's award-winning novel) and Egoyan has again crafted an intense, unsettling and cinematic work.

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