[1] It stars writer Claudia Dey as Lena, a woman who moves away from the city to a remote cottage in an attempt to heal herself and escape from her past.

In an attempt to come to terms with her transforming body, she leaves her home in the city and her ailing father to begin a new life at a remote cottage in Northern Ontario.

[5] Telefilm Canada provided completion funds through their Low Budget Independent Feature Film Assistance Program.

Yonah Lewis noted, "We instantly loved the way Karl-Arne was talking about the inevitability of it, about having to come to terms with the disease, that there was nothing you can change.

"[7] Claudia Dey, who the directing pair had worked with on their previous film, Amy George, was cast in the lead role.

"We would get our really small crew to shovel snow from one location to another to make it look like we had more of it than we did, but eventually we just had to give up and sort of let spring just happen.

Through watching other cuts of it and showing it to friends and other people, we realized there needed to be a little bit more contrast to talk about where she was coming from and where she was going, and you couldn’t get any sense of that before," explained Lewis.

"[10] The Globe and Mail's Adam Nayman praised it as "a potent and poetic piece of portraiture that doubles as a hymn to the frostbitten Muskokan landscape.

"[11] Jason Anderson for Cinema Scope wrote, "Though feelings of fear and pain are palpable in almost every moment of The Oxbow Cure, a curious sense of exhilaration cuts through the frigid dead.

Maybe that’s due to the co-directors’ Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas’ possible realization that they’ve managed to do something uncommonly brave within a Canadian system that bristles at anything resembling an authentic challenge to prevailing norms.

"[12] Andrew Parker for That Shelf described the film as "the kind of art that makes people household names and will cause those who see it to remark upon it for years to come.