Véronique Le Flaguais
1947 (78 лет)Jesus of Montreal
Denys Arcand
Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
Jesus of Montreal
Mon amie Max
Michel Brault
Geneviève Bujold, Marthe Keller
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Mon amie Max
Françoise Durocher, Waitress
André Brassard
Monique Mercure, Sophie Clément
Fictional character played by 24 different actresses, Françoise Durocher is altogether small time waitress, hostess and barmaid. Together, according to the author, they represent the archetypical Québec waitress that everyday waits on us with a smile, despite whatever problems she faces in her personal life. First cinematographic experience of the Brassard-Tremblay tandem, this film full of ironic joy details all the nuances of the waitress living conditions.
Françoise Durocher, Waitress
L'ange gardien
Jean-Sébastien Lord
Guy Nadon, Marilyn Castonguay
Normand, a retired policeman, works in a building as a night guard. One evening, he surprises Nathalie and Guylain in the middle of a robbery and, following a chase around the building, they manage to escape. Strangely, Nathalie comes to visit Normand a few weeks later, looking for refuge. An unusual relationship develops between the two and they discover that their lives are not at all what they seemed.
L'ange gardien
Cruising Bar
Robert Ménard
Michel Côté, Louise Marleau
In this outrageous comedy (where the lead characters are played by the same actor), four men from very different backgrounds set out to go "babe-hunting" on a Saturday night. Follow a very shy nerd, a... read more broken- hearted junkie, a snob yuppy, and a middle-aged married man through their amazing ordeal!
Cruising Bar
Menteur
Émile Gaudreault
Louis-José Houde, Antoine Bertrand
Simon Aubert runs his entire life on lies. An executive at an aviation company, he lies about everything… Simon’s self-serving lies are so abundant that the universe (governed by a handful of Buddhist monks, it seems) decides to right a wrong by teaching him a lesson and making all of the lies reality on the eve of his company’s crucial meeting with a Russian businessman that Simon absolutely needs to impress in order to prevent the closure of the small-town plant where his twin brother Phil works.
Compulsive Liar
Montréal vu par…
Jacques Leduc, Atom Egoyan
Jacques Allard, Denys Arcand
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
Montreal Stories
Comment Survivre à sa Mère
Émile Gaudreault
Caroline Dhavernas, Ellen David
Clara's mother is on her death bed as she tells her daughter that she regrets they are not closer. This revelation causes Clara to pursue a closer relationship with her own daughter, Bianca.
Surviving My Mother
