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*Beautiful! Journey back to days gone by, and loves-lost. Set both in the 60’s and Today, this is a really nice film about hippy culture, singer-songwriters, war protesters, and loves (lost & found). It’s got some great performances, great songs, and it is beautifully shot - including archival footage of the 1960s, which really add to the authenticity. There are no explosions or car chases, no evil villains or menacing aliens… it’s a simple and beautiful look back at the days when there was Hope for Peace & Change. It’s about life, love, & freedom - about the values, choices, & consequences - about loves-lost and loves-found. This is a great movie to watch.

9/10 Stars.

* Such a beautiful jewel of a movie... paints a loving picture of a time and place long gone - It captures the spirit of change, hope and turbulence of that time… an antidote to the times we’re in now.

* A wonderful film that is like a gentle breeze. A lovely story where dreams of a peaceful future were possible to those who lived the freedom loving “hippie” lifestyle…. A time when everything was possible. 

* An absolutely beautiful film! The music is gorgeous.

• The inclusion of archive footage edited so well into the film. Takes me back to the Sixties and I highly recommend!

* Anyone with nostalgia about Yorkville, for that era's music or that wonderful freedom to just wander out of conventional life will re-experience what it felt like to live and sing and love in that unique time.  I want to watch it again! 

* Wow... A film without villains is refreshing. Loved it!

* A great indy film set in the world of the late Sixties counter-culture …made with skill and passion.

* This is a lovely, gentle film. We loved the music and the background story is very evocative, showing the way people lived in the 'free-love' hippy era The actors’ performances are moving and we were transported to those people's lives.

A Song for Us is a wonderfully unique film that will touch the hearts of many people who fondly remember the 1960s. It's a total take-you-back to another time, another mentality, a special era in our lives and in the world.  The story is filmed with a dreamy quality that exactly captures the 60s feeling of being young, free, and seeking an alternative reality.  Writer-director Peter Hitchcock takes us back to Toronto's renowned folk music scene. His artful recreation of coffeehouse culture portrays the joys and heartbreaks of young people seeking freedom outside of time, and outside of the speeding, globalizing world that's right out there. His then-and-now protagonists were young rebels with a make-peace mindset, making music and art, and making love.  Through the eyes of the next generation, they show us the remembered heartbreak of freely loving and leaving.

Toronto Island was and is still an alternative place to live, as downtown's Yorkville was once a counterculture hotspot. A Song for Us seamlessly trips to an island of refuge, away from the big-city capitalist grind. The immediacy of the the storytelling is beautifully enhanced with a blend of period Toronto documentary footage and lovingly-filmed Toronto Island scenes. Cozy little houses, lakeside paths and island shorelines contrast vividly with the looming city skyline 'out there,' a striking background with which the characters do not interact.

Excellent casting gives us singers and actors who both act and perform their own original folk music, including Keith McKie of the group Kensington Market.  They skillfully capture the freedom, ideals, music of the period, as well as their caring for one another. Whether or not you ever had a chance to experience Yorkville's cafe culture, they will to bring you there in memory or imagination.  You'll visit a recreation of Yorkville's Penny Farthing, with its small- checkered-cloth-covered tables. You'll be there for open mic, casual performances, beautifully done, totally evocative. You may even feel sad that those idealistic young people didn't change the world as much as they hoped, to create that freer, simpler more beautiful life on a bigger scale.

A Song for US is creative and kindly and happy and sad and caring and questing, and beautifully time-out-of-time as those young people strove to be.  Hitchcock has captured it so, so well, an era, a place, and an aftermath and a resolution.

Anyone with any nostalgia about those Yorkville days, or that era's folk music, or the wonderful freedom to just wander out of conventional life - not the case for today's 20-somethings - will have a chance to re-experience (or experience for the first time) what it felt like to live and sing and love in that unique time. 

I want to watch it again !

Hi, Peter. We crossed paths months ago on Hippies of the '60s and '70s FB group when you posted about "A Song For Us". I'd forgotten all about it until I saw a link today for the movie. Wanted you to know how much I loved, loved, loved it! So many moments in there rang true for me from the '60s and '70s and the many characters I knew in my life. It's such a great film. It was so delightful to see our beloved TO Islands and TO as the locations. Anyway, I wanted you to know how wonderful your film is and thank you for making it. Some great memories. Peace & Love.

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