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
A charismatic French writer passing through Montreal, a young female student who idolizes him, her shrewish mother, a discarded husband and a good-natured...
Feature film, Fiction
CANADA, FRANCE | 93 minutes | 1994
A one take Super 8 film that explores the nature of the Cowboys and Indians myth perpetuated by widescreen Hollywood movies.
Short film, Fiction
CANADA | 3 minutes | 2006
At the Canadian National Spelling Bee speller Darryl Nepinak stumbles upon a familiar word.
CANADA | 2 minutes | 2008
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