Paul Guèvremont
2021Un homme et son péché
Paul Gury
Hector Charland, Nicole Germain
Filmed in French, this Canadian film was based on a popular Quebec-based radio serial. The man of the title is miserable miser Seraphim (Hector Charland). Misanthropic to the point of insanity, Seraphim takes great pleasure in destroying the lives of everyone with whom he comes in contact. His current target is Alexis (Guy Provost), the ex-lover of Seraphim's long-suffering wife Donalda (Nicole Germain). Taking into consideration its daytime-drama source, it's understandable that Un Homme et Son Peche is plotted and paced like a soap opera. Star Hector Charland had previously spent 10 years portraying Seraphim on radio, so he's got plenty of "mean" at his disposal for this big-screen spin-off.
A Man and His Sin
Le père Chopin
Fyodor Otsep
Madeleine Ozeray, Marcel Chabrier
A widower is struggling to raise his five children, when he finds a rich brother who imagines he will make them happy by unwittingly destroying their modest projects. After many disasters, the uncle will be more understanding and repair his wrongs. A duel to finish: moral values and love against money and selfishness, in the Quebec of the 1940s.
Le père Chopin
The 13th Letter
Otto Preminger
Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer
When Dr. Pearson comes to a quiet Quebec town to set up his medical practice, he attracts the notice of Cora, whose husband, Paul, is the town's other doctor, and Denise, eldest daughter of the family in whose house he lodges. When an unknown person begins writing letters attacking Dr. Pearson and Cora for having an affair, a complex web of rumors, lies and accusations begins to ensnare nearly everyone in town.
The 13th Letter
Le curé de village
Paul Gury
Rolland D'Amour, Denis Drouin
A convict on the run returns to his native village to see his daughter again, who believes him to be dead. The priest intervenes to avoid a scandal that would reflect on the young girl on the eve of getting married.
Le curé de village
Le gros Bill
René Delacroix, Jean-Yves Bigras
Amanda Alarie, Paul Berval
A tiny Quebec community is thrown into an uproar when a tall young Texan named Bill arrives to claim a farm he has inherited. Bill's inability to speak French, and his apparent unwillingness to learn the language, foments plenty of ill will in the community. The story is resolved with an abundance of warmth and humor, sometimes hokey, sometimes hilarious.
Le gros Bill
À la croisée des chemins
Jean-Marie Poitevin, Paul Guèvremont
René Lévesque, Paul Guèvremont
A young man, Jean Liber (Paul Guèvremont), who, at the end of his cours classique, decides to leave his rich, happy family and his finance, Pauline (Denise Pelletier), in order to become a missionary in China. This story of his struggle, 'at the crossroads' between love and God's calling, is clearly a pretext for a film designed to encourage young men to enter missionary work.
À la croisée des chemins
Coeur de Maman
René Delacroix
Jeanne Demons, Paul Desmarteaux
The melodramatic story of a widow, Marie Paradis, as she becomes an elderly dependant. Taking charge is her daughter-in-law, the cruel and stingy Céleste. Marie answers to all the stereotypes of the traditional mother: she's generous, loving.
Mom's heart
L'exil
Thomas Vámos
Albert Millaire, Anne Pauzé
Summoned by his bosses to broadcast only neutral information, Jean, a reporter, leaves town with his friend to go and collect testimonies from simple people, in the heart of the Laurentians, and reach out to them and outside society at genuine freedom, happiness. The departure is joyous, but the isolation in which they confine themselves does not bring either of them the results they expected. The adventure ends in failure. Would it be an illusion to believe that one can escape the community to which one belongs?
L'exil
