![]() ![]() I was talking about it and I said all these movies centre around a male figure who is funny and charming but they’re a bit either emotionally immature or a bit of a screw up. ![]() I had just re-watched High Fidelity and I love that movie. We were out one night and we started talking. We’ve known each other for years and years. There’s such a variety of work you’re involved with: there is the film & video work, there’s Gladstone Hotel, & then there is your band MINTZ. Where did you even find the time?Ĭhristina (Laughs): Well, it started with just a conversation between myself and the other co-writer/co-director John Mitchell. Let’s begin with the actual logistics of how Portrait came about. ![]() During the Mardi Gras Film Festival 2016, where the film played to a rapturous audience, Virat Nehru sat down with Christina Zeidler to discuss a myriad of important issues such as political framing of romantic comedies, representations of queer culture on film, the dilemma of securing funding for indie films, the emergence of the post-feminist rom-com heroine and Toronto finally getting the spotlight playing itself as a city instead of having to masquerade as every other American city. Christina Zeidler and John Mitchell’s Portrait of a Serial Monogamist is a bitingly self-aware post-modern romantic comedy that cleverly subverts audience expectations and the conventions of the genre.
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