Songs She Wrote About People She Knows

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Songs She Wrote About People She Knows is a Canadian musical comedy directed written and directed by Kris Elgstrand. The film had its world premiere in the Discovery programme at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Arabella Bushnell, Brad Dryborough, and Ross Smith star.

Carol, an emotionally repressed woman, loses friends and alienates people when she begins singing songs she wrote about people she knows. But she unexpectedly inspires her boss, to whom she dedicates the song Asshole Dave, to attempt to reignite his dream of becoming a rock star.

The idea of singing songs about people as therapy might sound weird but it’s an actual method, one that Elgstrand used as inspiration for his film. “I heard about this method of conflict resolution that forces people to sing their problems to other people in a group. I know someone who went through some version of that. I didn’t research the details but I was really drawn to the idea because it sounded so funny, sad and human. As it happens, I also like music a lot. In the ensuing years, I started writing and singing music myself and some of those songs started to take the shape of a character singing dark, violent songs to work through emotional issues.”

Songs She Wrote About People She Knows is rated 14A.