Review: Toronto music-world drama We Forgot to Break Up is its own kind of broken social scene

Review: Toronto music-world drama We Forgot to Break Up is its own kind of broken social scene

While the film aspires to join its cinematic predecessors in a kind of greatest-hits album of hard-rocking Canadiana, its final mix feels more like a collection of solid, but not quite chart-topping, singles

Travel Back to Early 2000s Toronto in ‘We Forgot To Break Up’

We Forgot to Break Up opens with a shot of a quintessential spot in Toronto—the bathroom at Sneaky Dee’s. “If you’re a millennial or Gen X, you know what those bathrooms look like. They’re kind of iconic,” says Karen Knox, the film’s director. For Knox, it was details like these that allowed her to travel back in time to the early 2000s in Toronto, painting a picture of the city’s vibrant music and bar scene at that time. In the film, we see it …