Dorothée Berryman

  • Claude Fournier – Je n’aime que toi AKA My Only Love (2004)

    2001-2010CanadaClaude FournierDramaRomance

    Renowned novelist Georges Guérin is out of inspiration to finish his next novel. One day, at a café, a young woman named Daisy recognizes him and they start a conversation. She says she’s a whore and makes such a story of her own life that she becomes the plot for his next novel, expected of all – especially Guillaume Lanctôt, his publisher. As the writing progresses, the relationship between them becomes more and more tender…Read More »

  • Denys Arcand – Le déclin de l’empire américain AKA The Decline of the American Empire (1986)

    1981-1990CanadaComedyDenys Arcand

    Quote:
    Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.

    Roger Ebert wrote:
    Here is a movie where everybody talks about nothing but sex, and the real subject is wit. The movie takes place during a little more than 24 hours in the lives of some friends, who either work in the history department of a Canadian university, or sleep with people who do. They meet for dinner, and as they prepare and eat the food and drink the wine, they talk and talk about sex. But if you listen carefully, you will find that their real subject is not sex, but verbal cleverness, and that their real passion comes in the area of intellectual competition.Read More »

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