Quote:
"They all said she could never raise the money or the native talent to make an artistic yet commercially acceptable film romance inspired by the life and death of Tom Thomson [...]. It took [Joyce] Wieland seven years to overcome the obstacles and put together the movie that Variety, a hard-headed show-business trade paper, has already hailed as a potential box-office hit as breathtakingly beautiful as Elvira Madigan."
-- Frank Rasky

Source:
Rasky, Frank. "Passionate painter and film-maker directs a classical romance." Toronto Star, September 18, 1976.