Articles by Brett Pardy

Brett Pardy

Brett is from Vancouver and is currently in Montreal working on his PhD, which examines how people learn empathy through watching films. His favourite film is The New World.

Brett Pardy / April 20, 2017

A tyrant and control freak: the patriarch in Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives prefigures the father figures in his later films

In Terence Davies’ films, fathers tend to control the domestic sphere: the abusive patriarch in Distant Voices, Still Lives, based on Davies’ own father, …

Brett Pardy / March 3, 2017

Hello Destroyer explores the thin line between hockey menace and model

Kevan Funk's Hello Destroyer is a hockey movie where the drama is not in the game, but in how its violence has consequences that ripple off the ice. …

Brett Pardy / January 11, 2017

Unlearning toxic masculinity in the Dardennes’ La Promesse

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s 1996 film, La Promesse (The Promise), examines how a teenage boy unlearns patriarchal values through his relationship with an …