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  • Michel Brault & Pierre Perrault – Pour la suite du monde aka For Those Who Will Follow (1963)

    Michel Brault1961-1970CanadaDocumentaryEpicPierre Perrault
    24 avril 2008
    24 avril 2008

    Pour la suite du monde, or “when cinema recreates life, old gesture and future…”

    Film Reference Library wrote:
    For centuries the inhabitants of Île-aux-Coudres, a small island in the St. Lawrence River, trapped beluga whales by sinking a weir of saplings into the offshore mud at low tide. After 1920 the practice was abandoned.

    In 1962, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, and a team of filmmakers from the NFB, arrived on the island to document life on Île-aux-Coudres and the resumption of the traditional whale trapping practice.Read More »

  • Adrian Murray – Retrograde (2022)

    2021-2030Adrian MurrayCanadaDrama
    Retrograde (2022)
    Retrograde (2022)

    A minor traffic citation spirals into an all-consuming obsession for a neurotic young woman.Read More »

  • Sébastien Pilote – La disparition des lucioles (2018)

    Sébastien Pilote2011-2020CanadaDrama
    La disparition des lucioles (2018)
    La disparition des lucioles (2018)

    A frustrated teenager frees herself from her mother’s influence and her narrow life in a small industrial town to find out who she really is.Read More »

  • Anne Claire Poirier – Mourir à tue-tête AKA A Scream from Silence (1979)

    1971-1980Anne Claire PoirierArthouseCanadaDrama
    Mourir à tue tête (1979)
    Mourir à tue tête (1979)

    Quote:
    A therapist’s client, a young auditioning actress, a guru’s disciple, a secretary, a wife: five short rape stories before the start of the main story. Suzanne, a nurse, returns home at midnight after her work. She is attacked by a man who forces her into his truck, beats her, insults her, rapes her. The following medical examination and statements at the police station are felt as an extension of the rape. Library documents broaden the subject to all those women who, during the Vietnam War among others, serve as distractions to the warriors, to this barbaric practice still current in Africa, clitoridectomy, “the most absolute rape, that of the woman within the woman.”Read More »

  • Pascal Plante – Les faux tatouages AKA Fake Tattoos (2017)

    Pascal Plante2011-2020CanadaDramaRomance
    Les faux tatouages (2017)
    Les faux tatouages (2017)

    Theo spends his 18th birthday alone, getting drunk at a punk rock show. There, he meets Mag, a teenage girl who invites him to spend the night at her place. A love story starts between them, but Theo has to leave the city at the end of summer.Read More »

  • Pascal Plante – Les chambres rouges AKA Red Rooms (2023)

    Pascal Plante2021-2030CanadaDrama
    Les chambres rouges (2023)
    Les chambres rouges (2023)

    The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.
    An element of the film I found most intriguing were the various people who were defending Chevalier. Whether it’s the very misguided Clementine, or even his defense lawyer, its uncomfortable to hear people supporting someone who so obviously did the crime. Yet there are people out there like this, so I think its nice to spotlight them. There were a ton of parallels between Clem in particular, as the Manson followers who stood outside his trial. So there’s a bit of catharsis that reveals itself as both Clem and Kelly-Anne are forced to reckon with their feelings as more evidence is unveiled.Read More »

  • Sébastien Pilote – Maria Chapdelaine (2021)

    Sébastien Pilote2021-2030CanadaDrama
    Maria Chapdelaine (2021)
    Maria Chapdelaine (2021)

    Quote:
    Maria Chapdelaine, a young woman of 16, lives with her family on land they are clearing near the Péribonka River in rural Québec in early 1900. True pioneers, the Chapdelaine family struggles to push back the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot diminish the warmth of family life, Maria finds herself faced with a deep dilemma. François Paradis, a free-spirited fur trapper and logger, promises Maria to return in spring to marry her, while Lorenzo Surprenant arrives at the farm offering a comfortable existence in an American city, and Eutrope Gagnon, a quiet and determined young farmer has staked a claim on the land next to the Chapdelaine’s. Thrust into the adult world, and juggling with thoughts of land, family and love, Maria will suddenly be forced to choose her future as a woman.Read More »

  • Chloé Robichaud – Les Jours Heureux AKA Days Of Happiness (2023)

    2021-2030CanadaChloé RobichaudDrama
    Les Jours Heureux (2023)
    Les Jours Heureux (2023)

    In order to unlock the future she has dreamed of, a young up-and-coming orchestra conductor must learn to harness her past and long-repressed emotions.

    Emma, a talented rising star on the Montreal stage, has a complicated relationship with her father, and agent, Patrick. Aware she is not reaching her full potential, she must decide if she is willing to do what it takes to succeed by facing her past and tapping into her emotions. If saving her career wasn’t enough pressure, she must also save a budding romantic relationship with Naëlle, a newly separated cellist and mother of a young boy.Read More »

  • Monia Chokri – Babysitter (2022)

    2021-2030CanadaComedyDramaMonia Chokri
    Babysitter (2022)
    Babysitter (2022)

    After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. He and his girlfriend hire a mysterious and liberated babysitter to help shake things up.Read More »

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