Tributes — Retrospectives — Films about cinema
QUéBEC, Canada | 82 minutes | 1980
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 latter, who’ve decided that as of now, they do only what they feel like doing. All of the film’s many women share the same desire to break free from the shackles that bind them. In its frontal attack on gender roles and male domination, La cuisine rouge marked a milestone in Quebec cinema. Can a dialogue between the sexes ever be possible?Restored versionQ&A with Paule BaillargeonPresented 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
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
An imaginary portrait of Ashlynn Brooke.
Short film, Fiction
FRANCE | 4 minutes | 2012
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