Twice Upon a Time

Twice Upon a Time

★ 10.0IMDb Score
Released:1979-01-01
Genre:Comedy
Duration:11 min
Country:Canada
Director:Giles Walker
Actors:Michael Choquette, Jeannette Casenave, Évelyn Regimbald, Wayne Robson, Jean Archambault
Production:ONF | NFB

Overview:

This short satirical film takes us to Stereoville, a city where citizens must literally double up in their efforts to deal with the community’s 2 official languages. In Stereoville, each speaker of one language is tied to a speaker of the other, back-to-back. Into this two-stepping society stumbles a character whose very existence causes considerable consternation among locals: an unattached individual with command of both languages.

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