Tributes — Retrospectives — Films about cinema
FRANCE | 82 minutes | 1983
During a decisive soccer match, the ref calls a penalty, with the unfortunate result that the local team loses. The furious fans hurl insults at the official from the stands, even going so far as to show up at his house to beat him up. Through this story of mass hysteria, the sardonic French filmmaker delivers a searing condemnation of the worst excesses of human stupidity. À mort l'arbitre ! flamboyantly exposes the dark side of sports and their overexcited fans. In a tale full of twists and turns, Michel Serrault steals every scene as a loony, foul-mouthed and violent soccer fan.Q&A with Carole Laure
No biography
It all happens in one day. A group of men and women are at the bar where a wedding reception was due to take place. The former wait to be served by the...
Feature film, Fiction
QUéBEC, CANADA | 82 minutes | 1980
Through a gallery of colourful characters, mordant humour and jittery camerawork, Forcier draws a tender portrait of a group of friends from a...
QUéBEC, CANADA | 92 minutes | 1977
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...
QUéBEC, CANADA | 96 minutes | 1979
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