Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer

In this wryly intimate film, Timothy Findley, an actor who became one of Canada's finest novelists, gives the performance of his life. Findley acts out for the camera his multiple roles and selves--ex-alcoholic, passionate lover of landscape and animals, failed dancer, homosexual, friend, child--all with charm and candor. However, it is Findley's life as a writer that most fascinates the viewer. One of the most compelling sequences in this film shows actors dramatizing several plots and variations as Findley creates, in successive drafts, the many possible lives of his characters--a perfect illustration of how imagination performs.