Press
- "On Sunday, Gina Chiarelli received two much-deserved standing ovations for her grippingly honest, tour-de-force performance as a schizophrenic who prophesizes the end of the world in Pete McCormack's See Grace Fly . This quasi-mystical story, which follows a brilliantly troubled woman and the voices that torment her through the streets of Vancouver, marks the directorial debut for author of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour-nominated comic novel Understanding Ken.”
- Alexandra Gill, the Globe and Mail
- "First-time directors from Vancouver were the talk of the festival circuit this year…audiences leapt to their feet for Pete McCormack and his film about a schizophrenic woman, See Grace Fly."
- Amy Carmichael, Ottawa Citizen
- “Gina Chiarelli is marvelous…” “Paul McGillion is excellent…”
- “…one of the most brilliant films to tackle religious themes since Jesus of Montreal…”
- La Presse
- “…heart-wrenching…” - The Globe and Mail
- “…emotionally shattering…”
- “…roles as juicy as this are an actor's recurring dream come true…”
- “…McCormack's writing is a reminder that words really do help in the lost art of communication…”
- “…Chiarelli's possessed portrayal of a brilliant 38-year-old woman out to warn the world that the end is nigh is the reason awards were invented…”
- John Griffin, The Montreal Gazette
- "...Grace McKinley is a distressingly believable character...she has the power to draw you into a world you might not come out of..."
- Maurie Alioff, Cine Festival
- "The best Canadian feature...was screenwriter (The Blue Butterfly, Whirlygirl) and novelist Pete McCormack’s See Grace Fly, a measured, humane portrayal of illness that most films don’t make time for. Already a double winner at last year’s Vancouver festival..., the film sketches a few days in the life of Grace, a 38-year-old schizophrenic convinced the apocalypse is about to come to pass.
- Measured and aggressive in its study of faith and illness, McCormack’s directorial debut dispenses with serial beauty shots (think Russell Crowe’s animated, frenzied manias in A Beautiful Mind) to foreground two brilliant performances from Gina Chiarelli as Grace and Paul McGillion as her brother Dominic, a lay missionary who has returned home to sort out the messy details of his mother’s death under Grace’s watch."
- Filmmaker Magazine
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