![]() ![]() Riceboy Sleeps and Brother are Canada's buzziest new movies.Essex County is comics phenom Jeff Lemire's toughest adaptation yet.It's not until meeting the fervently devout Marike that she allows herself to take part in the bible studies, church meetings and field service like all the rest - all while the two move decidedly, and dangerously, beyond friendship. It's a fact that the reserved-to-a-fault Jaime doesn't exactly rebel against, but initially doesn't take much interest in. ![]() Though Jaime firmly rejects the religion for herself, both Beth and Jean-Francois's lives are deeply woven into the local Jehovah's Witnesses community. After her father dies and her mother suffers a breakdown, Jaime is sent from her hometown of Thunder Bay to live with her aunt Beth (Liane Balaban) and uncle Jean-Francois (Antoine Yared) in Saguenay, Que. In the scope of the movie, all that is primarily experienced and observed by two characters: teen loner Jaime (Ontario's Anwen O'Driscoll) and relative do-gooder Marike (B.C.'s June Laporte). That name is a reference to the since discontinued Jehovah's Witnesses publication titled You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, itself a reference to the belief that a coming "new system of things" will eventually allow people to live eternally in a new heaven and earth. Originally known as You Can Live Forever in a Paradise on Earth back when the idea was a competitor in Telefilm's 2013 Pitch This! program, the movie takes its title and premise from the Jehovah's Witnesses Christian denomination. ![]()
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