Being Canadian
Director Calgarian Robert Cohen tries to find out what it really means to be Canadian in this humorous documentary through interviews with a who's-who of famous Canadians.
28 November 1949, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
22 March 1931, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
17 October 1969, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
24 August 1964, Hopedale, Massachusetts, USA
9 September 1975, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
15 April 1982, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
13 April 1964, Westmount, Québec, Canada
30 November 1965, New York City, New York, USA
4 January 1963, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4 March 1954, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
29 July 1953, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1971, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
15 June 1971, Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada
1 March 1947, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
8 November 1931, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 June 1961, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
16 August 1972, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
29 September 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 August 1942, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
3 September 1963, England, UK
18 April 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10 March 1947, Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
1968, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
22 June 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 November 1938, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
April 27, 2015
Being Canadian is a fun and humorous examination of what it means to be Canadian, even if it's sometimes wrapped up in its own cleverness.
May 07, 2015
[A] good-natured documentary.
September 16, 2015
Like our good neighbor to the north, this first-person documentary is genial, amusing and a little bit dull.
September 08, 2015
Lightly amusing if over-familiar summary of every Canadian stereotype we know and love.
September 17, 2015
It's all pleasant enough, but the film, ultimately more of a checklist than an in-depth analysis, never really shines any fresh light on Canada's identity crisis or gets to the source of all those preconceived notions.
January 02, 2016
Being Canadian reifies stereotypes under the guise of deconstructing them, and panders to the pernicious idea of celebrity authority (with a few experts and plucked-from-the-crowd civilians sprinkled in for good measure).
May 07, 2015
Cohen's not trying to do anything resembling a serious examination of the country, of course, but even wink-nudge examinations of identity could at least use a few new jokes.
November 12, 2015
Another shallow, easy, and small-time immersion in the sort of nationalistic navel-gazing most people outgrew years ago.
December 18, 2015
Being Canadian is more of a pandering stunt than a proper documentary, filled with easy jokes and semi-comical historical observations, but not much in the way of actual insight.
