#14 — The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997) I tend to be hard on films that present narratives with fractured chronologies, but that’s only because I’ve seen the technique done perfectly, exactly right. Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter is based upon a novel written by Russell Banks. The story deals with the aftermath of a school bus crash in a small town that resulted in the death of most of the children aboard. The residents of the insular Canadian burg are understandably devastated, shell-shocked as they try to proceed with the eternal echo of lives lost far too young hanging … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 90s — Number Fourteen