The Quebec director has focused on marginal figures, creating worlds that blend fantasy and poetry with jarring realism. His collaborations over the years have involved such top talents and household names. Today, Forcier is widely hailed as one of Quebec cinema’s boldest and brightest.
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...
Feature film , Fiction
QUéBEC | 92 minutes | 1977
The enfant terrible of Quebec cinema is back with the story of Albert, a beekeeper and mead brewer working from Montreal’s rooftops. Enter Brother Marie-Victorin who, bored to tears up in heaven, comes along...
QUéBEC | 102 minutes | 2019
A charismatic French writer passing through Montreal, a young female student who idolizes him, her shrewish mother, a discarded husband and a good-natured boxer make up the highly colourful cast of characters...
CANADA | 93 minutes | 1994
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