Quote:
"The Ottawa '76 international film festival opened Thursday evening with the world premiere of The Far Shore, Toronto artist Joyce Wieland's love story inspired by the life and death of painter Tom Thomson. [...] Wieland, and the film's investors, should have their reward, for The Far Shore will (if things are done right) attract a large following. It's that interesting a movie. Watching it you're not sure what to think. The film is filled with 'dramatic coincidence' and other hokum, including bits of dialogue like Tom telling waspishly entrepreneurial Ross 'you're rich enough, leave the North alone' [...]. The audience laughed at these things, and at a rather remarkable love scene that takes place entirely beneath the pristine waters of some northern lake—but still did not fail to be affected by the same scenes' drama and emotion. It's a multi-layer thing, with Wieland both mocking movie and artworld sentimentality and yet loving it, using it to move the audience and make her movie work."
-- Dane Lanken

Source:
Lanken, Dane. "Wieland feature explains well life and death of Tom Thomson." Montreal Gazette, August 7, 1976.