Sébastien Pilote

  • 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 »

  • Sébastien Pilote – Maria Chapdelaine (2021)

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

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    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 »

  • Sébastien Pilote – Le Vendeur (2011)

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    This stunning Quebecois kitchen sink drama is so raw and real, the pain evoked so acute, you’ll be devastated by its quiet power while at the same time dazzled by its cinematic genius. The film had its World Premiere in Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and was cited as one of Canada’s Ten Best Films of the year in the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) CTT. That it has not garnered one single nomination for a Genie Award is an utter disgrace.

    (Greg Klymkiw, canadianfilmcorner.blogspot.com)

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    A tale of quiet resilience and human frailty that plays out against a harsh and apparently endless Quebec winter, befouled by the global economic downturn and a cruel twist of fate, Quebec filmmaker Sébastien Pilote’s debut, Le Vendeur (The Salesman) is a masterful observation of ordinary people squeezing what they need to get by out of unforgiving circumstances.Read More »

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