Quote:
"By pressing too hard on her themes, [Joyce] Wieland turns her characters into caricatures. [...] Wieland made a period melodrama in which she looked back on Toronto and Canadian culture as she imagined they might have been in the years following the First World War. Today [in 1997] The Far Shore registers as another kind of period piece, a sentimental fragment representing certain ideas and feelings of the 1970s, as one notable artist tried to express them."
-- Robert Fulford

Source:
Fulford, Robert. "Tom Thomson film a canvas for beliefs, ideas of the 1970s." Globe and Mail, July 30, 1997.