Julie Vincent

  • Francis Mankiewicz – Les beaux souvenirs AKA Beautiful Memories (1981)

    1981-1990CanadaDramaFrancis Mankiewicz

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    Viviane, a prodigal child, tries to regain her place in the family she abandoned. Hurt by the desertion and the absence of their beloved, her father and younger sister have created an airtight, troubled world on which rests their security. A hard, moving film shot in the magnificent setting of the Island of Orleans from a script by Réjean Ducharme.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)

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    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 »

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