Tributes — Retrospectives — Films about cinema
QUéBEC, Canada | 92 minutes | 1977
Through a gallery of colourful characters, mordant humour and jittery camerawork, Forcier draws a tender portrait of a group of friends from a working-class background. The Quebec director captures something genuine as, in this seemingly idyllic community, his characters are busy dredging up their deepest secrets and delivering bald truths about one another. Birthday boy Polo, an unscrupulous loan shark who takes advantage of his friends, clashes with the tenants desperate to find some happiness in their day-to-day. The result is a modern fable: world-weary, yet lively and poetic.PREMIERE - restored version by Éléphant: mémoire du cinéma québécoisAndré Forcier will be in attendancePresented by Éléphant: mémoire du cinéma québécois
No biography
Arriving home from work, Suzanne is raped. The initiator of the NFB’s avant-garde En tant que femmes series, director Anne-Claire Poirier, shakes us with...
Feature film, Fiction
QUéBEC, CANADA | 96 minutes | 1979
An imaginary portrait of Ashlynn Brooke.
Short film, Fiction
FRANCE | 4 minutes | 2012
By intertwining the destinies of Pauline and Suzanne, two women brought together by a personal crisis, Agnès Varda paints a lively portrait not just of an...
FRANCE | 120 minutes | 1977
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