INVISIBLE CITY (Hubert Davis, Canada). 75 minutes. Saturday (May 2), 9:45 pm, Royal May 9, 3:30 pm, Cumberland 3 May 10, 9:45 pm, Isabel Bader. Rating: NNN
This portrait of two teenagers living in Regent Park is both heartbreaking and angering.
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These young men have more support than most in their circumstances. They have loving (single) mothers and personal attention from Ainsworth Morgan, a former teacher in their high school, now working out of the innovative Pathways To Education program.
But we get the sense that they can’t escape the pressures of racism and poverty and will not thrive. A life of thuggery awaits them.
The film is sensitively conceived by Hubert Davis and well shot by Christopher Romeike. But it promises to pursue the implications of the current dismantling of the Regent Park complex and never does.
