Léa Pool

  • Léa Pool – La femme de l’hôtel AKA A Woman in Transit (1984)

    1981-1990ArthouseCanadaDramaLéa Pool

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    Andrea Richler is a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, she has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman named Estelle. This is briefly forgotten until later when she meets the same lady again and with mounting incredulity Andrea discovers that the actual events in the woman’s life mirror the fictional events in her film.Read More »

  • Léa Pool – Emporte-moi AKA Set Me Free (1999)

    1991-2000CanadaDramaLéa Pool

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    The most exuberant set piece in the acutely sensitive Set Me Freefinds two girls blithely spurning the puppy-dog attentions of the boys at a dance party to hold hands and exchange gazes. As in much of her autobiographical coming-of-age tale, director Léa Pool uses long, steady close-ups to limn the girls’ discovery of each other, coaxing tender, unaffected performances from her two young actresses. They stand on the precarious threshold of adolescence, when physical love has not yet divided into erotic and platonic categories.Read More »

  • Léa Pool – À corps perdu (1988)

    1981-1990CanadaDramaLéa PoolRomance

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    A war photographer returns home to Montréal to discover that his two partners have left him to be together. Alone in the city, he photographs what he sees, trying to heal both his war memories and a broken heart.Read More »

  • Léa Pool – La passion d’Augustine (2015) (HD)

    2011-2020DramaFranceLéa Pool

    In a small convent school in rural Quebec, Mother Augustine provides a musical education to young women no matter their socio-economic background. However, with the looming changes brought by Vatican II and Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, the school’s future is at peril.Read More »

  • Léa Pool – Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011)

    2011-2020DocumentaryLéa PoolPoliticsUSA

    Breast cancer has become the poster child of corporate cause-related marketing campaigns. Countless women and men walk, bike, climb and shop for the cure. Each year, millions of dollars are raised in the name of breast cancer, but where does this money go and what does it actually achieve? Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a feature documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a “dream cause,” becomes obfuscated by a shiny, pink story of success.Read More »

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