Martin Laroche
1981 (44 года)Originally from Victoriaville, Quebec, he is a film studies graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal. He wrote and directed his debut feature film, La logique du remords, in 2007 and followed up with Modernaire in 2009. Since Fair Sex, he has also directed the films Tadoussac in 2017 and Laughter (Le Rire) in 2020.
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Les manèges humains
Martin Laroche
Marie-Evelyne Lessard, Marc-André Brunet
Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past.
Fair Sex
Tadoussac
Martin Laroche
Camille Mongeau, Isabelle Blais
In the dead of winter, 18-year-old Chloe runs away from Montreal and hitch-hikes to Tadoussac, a small Quebec tourist village. In exchange for a room, she works at the local hostel, like many other young travelers. But Chloe is also secretly searching for someone.
Tadoussac
Le rire
Martin Laroche
Léane Labrèche-Dor, Micheline Lanctôt
As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she’s in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she works as an orderly, she befriends Jeanne, an erudite and funny woman, dealing with an important physical handicap. Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, The Laugh presents a humane exploration of the survivor’s syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of being alive.
Laughter
