Life Below Zero
Haïssez-vous l’hiver? Si oui, vous êtes le Canadien typique.
We Canucks may have a mythic international reputation (and self-image) as a nation of hardy winter warriors who joyously, skate, ski, ice fish and trek our way through months of cold and snow, but in recent decades our love affair with winter seems to be going sour. What’s happened to our Canadian “cold” genes? Have we gone soft and lost our ‘winter edge’?
These are the opening questions of Life Below Zero, a light-hearted yet thought-provoking new documentary about Canadians and our changing relationship with winter by filmmakers Josh Freed and Barbara Doran.
Life Below Zero also sets off to see how Canadians’ relationship to winter compares with that of other northern nations, from stoic Russians to winter-loving Scandinavians.