"Your daughter's compassion is triggered when she sees humans dying." Drafthouse FIlms has debuted an official US trailer for an acclaimed dark comedy vampire horror film titled Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person hailing from Quebec. This one originally premiered at the 2023 Venice & Toronto Film Festivals last year, and has been playing at more festivals this year. Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply (literally), Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teen willing to give his life to save hers. Their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks. Starring Sara Montpetit as Sasha, with Félix-Antoine Bénard as Paul, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux, and Noémie O'Farrell. I raved in my Venice review: "What a great, bloody vampire gem, easy to watch and fall for,...
- 5/9/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
With the 2024 Overlook Film Festival now officially in the rearview mirror, the annual New Orleans celebration of all things horror has announced the winners of its audience and jury awards.
The festival’s top prize, the Audience Award for Feature Film, went to “Oddity,” Damian Mc Carthy’s home invasion horror flick that was a breakout from the SXSW 2024 midnight lineup.
“’Oddity’ delivers a brilliant, bespoke, and tightly entertaining string of ideas that work stronger as a collection — with even these missteps feeling like they branch from a unified center,” IndieWire’s Alison Foreman wrote in her Overlook review of the film. “Similar to Mc Carthy’s earlier ‘Caveat,’ this 98-minute treat demands to be reassessed a second time. Thank the wooden boy it’s coming to streaming: a triumphant addition to the director’s growing filmography and a standout in Shudder’s carousel of kick-ass ghost stories.”
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The festival’s top prize, the Audience Award for Feature Film, went to “Oddity,” Damian Mc Carthy’s home invasion horror flick that was a breakout from the SXSW 2024 midnight lineup.
“’Oddity’ delivers a brilliant, bespoke, and tightly entertaining string of ideas that work stronger as a collection — with even these missteps feeling like they branch from a unified center,” IndieWire’s Alison Foreman wrote in her Overlook review of the film. “Similar to Mc Carthy’s earlier ‘Caveat,’ this 98-minute treat demands to be reassessed a second time. Thank the wooden boy it’s coming to streaming: a triumphant addition to the director’s growing filmography and a standout in Shudder’s carousel of kick-ass ghost stories.”
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- 4/11/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
"It's an acquires taste. You'll end up enjoying it." Madman Films in Australia has revealed their trailer for an acclaimed dark comedy vampire film from Quebec titled Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. This is a very good film! It premiered at the 2023 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals last year, and is still playing at fests this year including Wisconsin, Cleveland, and Miami coming up. Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply (literally), Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teen willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks. Starring Sara Montpetit as Sasha, with Félix-Antoine Bénard as the boy Paul, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux, and Noémie O'Farrell. I raved in my Venice review: "What a great,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux, Noémie O’Farrell, Marie Brassard, Patrick Hivon, Marc Beaupré | Written by Ariane Louis-Seize, Christine Doyon | Directed by Ariane Louis-Seize
The feature debut of director / co-writer Ariane Louis-Seize, this splendidly titled French-Canadian vampire flick is a blackly comic coming-of-ager that’s basically a cult movie waiting to happen. With a genre-savvy script, a terrific cast and buckets of charm, it’s a fang-tastic treat that deserves to find a devoted audience.
Set in Montreal, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person stars Sara Montpetit as Sasha, a 62-year-old vampire who still has the body of a teenager. As a young girl (played by Lilas-Rose Cantin) in the 1980s, Sasha was left appalled at her birthday party when she suddenly realised that she was supposed to kill the clown her parents (Steve Laplante and Sophie Cadieux) had ordered for her, and she refused.
Years later,...
The feature debut of director / co-writer Ariane Louis-Seize, this splendidly titled French-Canadian vampire flick is a blackly comic coming-of-ager that’s basically a cult movie waiting to happen. With a genre-savvy script, a terrific cast and buckets of charm, it’s a fang-tastic treat that deserves to find a devoted audience.
Set in Montreal, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person stars Sara Montpetit as Sasha, a 62-year-old vampire who still has the body of a teenager. As a young girl (played by Lilas-Rose Cantin) in the 1980s, Sasha was left appalled at her birthday party when she suddenly realised that she was supposed to kill the clown her parents (Steve Laplante and Sophie Cadieux) had ordered for her, and she refused.
Years later,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
The unkillable vampire legend gets one of its frequent cinematic resurrections with Québécois director Ariane Louis-Seize’s sweetly gothy Venice Days winner, a film wittily — if too comprehensively — described by its title: “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person.” The idea of a vampire who doesn’t want to kill is hardly without precedent. But Louis-Seize’s eager debut, intentionally or otherwise, plays to a relatively vamp-starved demographic, providing continuity to kids who have long outgrown the “Sesame Street” version, but are still a bit young for the emo lustiness of the “Twilight” franchise. It’s more fairy tale than scary tale.
It is, however, a fine showcase for the witchy charisma of star Sara Montpetit who, after playing the doom-fixated object of a first crush in Charlotte Le Bon’s terrific “Falcon Lake,” seems hellbent on cornering the market in gloomy Francophone teenagers navigating an entree into adulthood in which sex and death are intertwined.
It is, however, a fine showcase for the witchy charisma of star Sara Montpetit who, after playing the doom-fixated object of a first crush in Charlotte Le Bon’s terrific “Falcon Lake,” seems hellbent on cornering the market in gloomy Francophone teenagers navigating an entree into adulthood in which sex and death are intertwined.
- 9/16/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
It’s such a wonderfully simple yet utterly unique premise. Ever since Sasha (Sara Montpetit) was a young vampire, she’s been unable to bare her fangs. Maybe it’s the product of Ptsd (after a hilarious “clown incident”). Or maybe it’s a result of her body chemistry triggering her compassion center at the sight of human duress rather than hunger like the rest of her species. Thus sustenance comes only from the blood bags others provide her.
Dad (Steve Laplante) is sympathetic. Mom (Sophie Cadieux) is frustrated. He wants to give their daughter time to grow into her own skin. She wants to stop having to be the only one who hunts out of the three of them. So after a few decades pass and Sasha’s more heartless aunt (Marie Brassard) bends their ears towards tough love, the time to kick her out of the nest arrives.
Dad (Steve Laplante) is sympathetic. Mom (Sophie Cadieux) is frustrated. He wants to give their daughter time to grow into her own skin. She wants to stop having to be the only one who hunts out of the three of them. So after a few decades pass and Sasha’s more heartless aunt (Marie Brassard) bends their ears towards tough love, the time to kick her out of the nest arrives.
- 9/12/2023
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Vampirism has many metaphorical possibilities. In the quirky Quebecois vamp-com “Vampire Humaniste Chereche Suicidaire Consentant” (“Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person”), the bloodsucking undead — more specifically, their eating habits — stand in for troubled teens, developmental delays, sexual coming-of-age, and even vegetarianism. The film opens with a darkly comedic scene of a family presenting a little girl with her birthday present: A party clown, which the girl’s parents have locked inside of a wooden trunk in the living room. Go ahead, they tell her. Eat him. You’re old enough now.
But Sasha (Sarah Montpetit) doesn’t want to kill the clown — which is a problem because, as a vampire, someday she’s going to have to learn how to murder humans for sustenance. Mom (Sophie Caideux) and Dad (Steve Laplante) take Sasha to a vampire pediatrician, who tells them that Sasha has a neurological defect that makes her feel...
But Sasha (Sarah Montpetit) doesn’t want to kill the clown — which is a problem because, as a vampire, someday she’s going to have to learn how to murder humans for sustenance. Mom (Sophie Caideux) and Dad (Steve Laplante) take Sasha to a vampire pediatrician, who tells them that Sasha has a neurological defect that makes her feel...
- 9/3/2023
- by Katie Rife
- Indiewire
Canada-based movie distributor and aggregator H264 is launching a world sales arm with the acquisition of “Red Rooms,” which has its world premiere next week in the Crystal Globe Competition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The company is focused on festival-driven, innovative films.
“Red Rooms,” directed by Quebec filmmaker Pascal Plante, is a cyber-thriller questioning the collective fascination with murderers. It will screen at Karlovy Vary on July 4, and will then open the Fantasia Film Festival on July 20 for its North American premiere.
Montréal-based H264 is also ramping up its international slate by adding “Mademoiselle Kenopsia,” from filmmaker Denis Côté, who won awards at Berlin with “Vic + Flo Saw a Bear” and Locarno with “Curling.”
The company is also representing the dark comedy “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person,” directed by Ariane Louis-Seize, starring Sara Montpetit (“Falcon Lake”) and Steve Laplante.
Jean-Christophe J. Lamontagne, founder and president of H...
“Red Rooms,” directed by Quebec filmmaker Pascal Plante, is a cyber-thriller questioning the collective fascination with murderers. It will screen at Karlovy Vary on July 4, and will then open the Fantasia Film Festival on July 20 for its North American premiere.
Montréal-based H264 is also ramping up its international slate by adding “Mademoiselle Kenopsia,” from filmmaker Denis Côté, who won awards at Berlin with “Vic + Flo Saw a Bear” and Locarno with “Curling.”
The company is also representing the dark comedy “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person,” directed by Ariane Louis-Seize, starring Sara Montpetit (“Falcon Lake”) and Steve Laplante.
Jean-Christophe J. Lamontagne, founder and president of H...
- 6/30/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Canadian Screen Awards has unveiled nominations for the national film and TV prize-giving, and the CBC civil rights drama The Porter leads the film and TV field with 19 mentions in all, including for best small-screen drama.
The first Canadian drama series from an all-Black creative team, which also streams on BET+, centers on the lives of Black train porters and their families as they launch North America’s first Black labor union in the 1920s.
The TV categories, voted on by around 3,000 Canadian industry insiders, also sees the CBC series Detention Adventure and Sort Of – a Peabody award-winning show about a gender fluid young Muslim in Toronto played by Bilal Baig — nab 15 nominations each in an awards show shaping up to be a major showcase for people of color.
That follows Canadian film, and TV industry efforts to ensure diversity and inclusivity in the country’s indie production sector and prize-giving process.
The first Canadian drama series from an all-Black creative team, which also streams on BET+, centers on the lives of Black train porters and their families as they launch North America’s first Black labor union in the 1920s.
The TV categories, voted on by around 3,000 Canadian industry insiders, also sees the CBC series Detention Adventure and Sort Of – a Peabody award-winning show about a gender fluid young Muslim in Toronto played by Bilal Baig — nab 15 nominations each in an awards show shaping up to be a major showcase for people of color.
That follows Canadian film, and TV industry efforts to ensure diversity and inclusivity in the country’s indie production sector and prize-giving process.
- 2/22/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Only two projects into her already solid filmography, Maria Chapdelaine and Falcon Lake star Sara Montpetit will sink her teeth into Ariane Louis-Seize‘s Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant. A filmmaker who has preemed her shorts at TIFF and Berlinale, Louis-Seize’s feature debut has Félix-Antoine Bénard in the co-lead and the rest of the players include Viking‘s Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux, Noémie O’Farrell, Marie Brassard, Marc Beaupré, Patrick Hivon, Micheline Bernard, Ariane Castellanos, Madeleine Peloquin, Gabriel-Antoine Roy, Emma Olivier, Arnaud Vachon and Isabella Villalba. Production begins today in Montreal until the first week of December. Viking helmer Stéphane Lafleur is onboard as the editor.…...
- 10/25/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
France tv distribution has boarded “Sweetheart” (“Chouchou”), an eight-part drama series produced by well-known Quebec-based company Passez Go.
Written by Simon Boulerice, the drama show revolves around Chanelle, a 38-year-old teacher who is happily married with two children. Her life unravels after she meets Sandrick, a 17-year-old teenager who has just been transferred to her class, and falls under his charm. Chanelle tries to help Sandrick as he struggles at home with his dysfunctional mother, but their relationship turns into an illicit and passionate affair that leaves no one unscathed. The series is directed by Félix Tétreault and Marie-Claude Blouin (“Le Chalet”).
Produced by Evelyne Brochu and Lévi Doré at Passez Go, “Sweetheart” will be launched internationally by France tv distribution at Mipcom which kicks off Oct. 17. The eight-part series stars Evelyne Brochu, Lévi Doré, Sophie Cadieux and Steve Laplante. “Sweetheart” has already been ordered by Canadian Broadcaster Noovo.
France tv Distribution...
Written by Simon Boulerice, the drama show revolves around Chanelle, a 38-year-old teacher who is happily married with two children. Her life unravels after she meets Sandrick, a 17-year-old teenager who has just been transferred to her class, and falls under his charm. Chanelle tries to help Sandrick as he struggles at home with his dysfunctional mother, but their relationship turns into an illicit and passionate affair that leaves no one unscathed. The series is directed by Félix Tétreault and Marie-Claude Blouin (“Le Chalet”).
Produced by Evelyne Brochu and Lévi Doré at Passez Go, “Sweetheart” will be launched internationally by France tv distribution at Mipcom which kicks off Oct. 17. The eight-part series stars Evelyne Brochu, Lévi Doré, Sophie Cadieux and Steve Laplante. “Sweetheart” has already been ordered by Canadian Broadcaster Noovo.
France tv Distribution...
- 10/7/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
"You are a near-perfect replica of our crew." A festival promo trailer is out to watch for this funky sci-fi Quebecois film titled Viking, which is premiering at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival underway right now. A behavioral research team observes and attempts to replicate the experiences of the first manned mission to Mars. TIFF adds more: "The latest from Stéphane Lafleur (Tu dors Nicole) balances absurdist humour with poignant reflection on the human condition as it follows the subjects of behavioural research — and the astronauts they mirror — in advance of the first manned mission to Mars." The film stars Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola N. Aladin, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard, and Martin-David Peters. Our friend at Quiet Earth watched this already, saying that "it's that rare kind of science fiction where gadgets and fantasy are overshadowed by the mysteries of the human psyche, and arguably Lafleur’s finest film to date.
- 9/14/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Babysitter Trailer — Monia Chokri‘s Babysitter (2022) movie trailer has been released by Bac Films. The Babysitter trailer stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Monia Chokri, Patrick Hivon, Steve Laplante, and Hubert Proulx. Crew Catherine Léger wrote the screenplay for Babysitter. Emile Sornin created the music for the film. Josée Deshaies crafted the cinematography for the film. Plot Synopsis Babysitter‘s [...]
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- 8/29/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Babysitter Review — Babysitter (2022) Film Review from the 21st Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Monia Chokri, written by Catherine Léger, and starring Patrick Hivon, Monia Chokri, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Steve Laplante, Hubert Proulx, Nathalie Breuer, and Eve Duranceau. Babysitter is a visceral comedy with unexpected heights and depths woven into [...]
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- 6/19/2022
- by David McDonald
- Film-Book
Babysitter Tribeca Festival Tribeca Critics’ Week Selection Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Monia Chokri Writer: Catherine Léger Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Monia Chokri, Patrick Hivon, Steve Laplante Screened at: Village East Cinema, NYC, 4/9/22 Opens: June 14th, 2022 New parents always face challenges, since it’s an endeavor they’ve never embarked on before, sure to […]
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- 6/18/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- ShockYa
Few things are certain in the Oscars short film categories, but a few stories about kids will usually land nominations. There’s something about childhood, that universal land of nostalgia, that just gets Oscar voters going. In “Like the Ones I Used to Know” (“Les Grandes Claques”), an equal parts tender and lighthearted narrative set in the 1980s, Quebecois filmmaker Annie St-Pierre has mastered the art of the poignant childhood tale. Like all great shorts, the film takes a simple premise — a recent divorcee picking his kids up from their mother’s house on Christmas — and elegantly uses specificity to tap into something achingly universal.
“That’s what interests me most in cinema: To zoom in on a micro moment that has a meta effect on the life of the characters. I think the format of short film is fantastic for that,” St-Pierre said in a recent interview. “You can...
“That’s what interests me most in cinema: To zoom in on a micro moment that has a meta effect on the life of the characters. I think the format of short film is fantastic for that,” St-Pierre said in a recent interview. “You can...
- 2/1/2022
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Monia Chokri’s “Babysitter” is The story of middle-aged sex pest Cédric (Patrick Hivon), his over-compensating feminist brother Jean-Michel (Steve Laplante), his depressed wife Nadine — a new mother, played by Chokri herself — and their mysterious, youthful nanny Amy (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) who seems intent on spicing up their love life, the film arrives with thunderous, uncompromising energy that only lets up when Chorkri decides to veer into the phantasmagorical.
Adapted by Catherine Léger from her play of the same name, the French-Canadian satire opens on the verge of an overdose of testosterone and adrenaline, with Cédric and his skeevy pals Carlos (Stéphane Moukarzel) and Tessier (Hubert Proulx) ogling pictures of women on their cellphones while cheering on a bloody cage-fight. With rapid-fire close-ups of breasts, butts, and the trio’s leery eyes, Chokri, cinematographer Josée Deshaies, and editor Pauline Gaillard yank the audience into an uncomfortably ravenous sensory overload with a sickly,...
Adapted by Catherine Léger from her play of the same name, the French-Canadian satire opens on the verge of an overdose of testosterone and adrenaline, with Cédric and his skeevy pals Carlos (Stéphane Moukarzel) and Tessier (Hubert Proulx) ogling pictures of women on their cellphones while cheering on a bloody cage-fight. With rapid-fire close-ups of breasts, butts, and the trio’s leery eyes, Chokri, cinematographer Josée Deshaies, and editor Pauline Gaillard yank the audience into an uncomfortably ravenous sensory overload with a sickly,...
- 1/27/2022
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Indiewire
A comedy of (bad) manners, Monia Chokri’s Babysitter plays with myriad interesting themes, ranging from toxic masculinity to post-postpartum depression but ultimately can’t fully sustain itself. Playing in the Midnight section at Sundance, the film has some horror undertones but generally doesn’t nearly check any box. It tries its hand at satire, supernatural horror, broad comedy, and ethereal lyricism. Perhaps some of these themes might work for a more focused short film, but this feature throws everything its got into a blender with only mild restraint from a character who proves (not surprisingly) to not be as woke in private as he is in public.
Adapted from Catherine Leger’s stage play, Babysitter opens with Cedric (Patrick Hivon) and his boys enjoying a drunken, hyper-sexualized “boys night out” at a boxing match. In a drunken stupor, he kisses well-known TV reporter Chantel Traumbly while spewing a long...
Adapted from Catherine Leger’s stage play, Babysitter opens with Cedric (Patrick Hivon) and his boys enjoying a drunken, hyper-sexualized “boys night out” at a boxing match. In a drunken stupor, he kisses well-known TV reporter Chantel Traumbly while spewing a long...
- 1/25/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
After bursting onto the international stage with roles in Xavier Dolan’s “Heartbeats” and “Laurence Anyways,” and premiering her own directorial debut, “A Brother’s Love,” at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, Quebecoise filmmaker Monia Chokri approached her sophomore feature as a kind of challenge.
Adapted from the 2017 play by author Catherine Léger, “Babysitter” — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22 — marks Chokri’s first directorial outing working from someone else’s text.
“Taking someone else’s words and transposing them to images was a formative experience,” Chokri tells Variety. “[In doing so] I wanted to focus on my own directing, on how best to highlight and improve my work behind the camera. That’s where I could contribute deeply to the project, and could advance from a visual and technical standpoint.”
Diving into the source material — which tracks a proto-MeToo narrative as it follows a macho engineer Cedric dealing with the fallout...
Adapted from the 2017 play by author Catherine Léger, “Babysitter” — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22 — marks Chokri’s first directorial outing working from someone else’s text.
“Taking someone else’s words and transposing them to images was a formative experience,” Chokri tells Variety. “[In doing so] I wanted to focus on my own directing, on how best to highlight and improve my work behind the camera. That’s where I could contribute deeply to the project, and could advance from a visual and technical standpoint.”
Diving into the source material — which tracks a proto-MeToo narrative as it follows a macho engineer Cedric dealing with the fallout...
- 1/24/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The clumsy, drunken lunge and uninvited cheek-kiss that precipitates the action in wildly uneven French-Canadian comedy “Babysitter” is oddly appropriate for a film that can also feel like the victim of misguided, intrusive, if hardly malevolent exuberance. Far less coherent than her more focused and confident debut “A Brother’s Love,” Monia Chokri’s second feature is basically a series of sketches, some of which comment on ingrained, unconscious misogyny, while others lampoon the culture of hypersensitivity around less severe examples of unexamined sexism, such as that forced kiss. This makes it apt, too, that “Babysitter” has such a sugary aesthetic: It often looks like the cake it wants both to have and to eat.
An awkward prologue bears the scars of restrictive pandemic shooting. Through headachey close-ups, whip-pans and crash zooms, Chokri tries to fabricate the atmosphere of a crowded arena where an Mma title fight is underway. The pans...
An awkward prologue bears the scars of restrictive pandemic shooting. Through headachey close-ups, whip-pans and crash zooms, Chokri tries to fabricate the atmosphere of a crowded arena where an Mma title fight is underway. The pans...
- 1/24/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The live-action short film from writer and director Annie St-Pierre, “Les Grandes Claques” (also known as “Like the Ones I Used to Know”) premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and focuses on a father (Steve Laplante) who goes to his former in-laws’ house to collect his children (Lilou Roy-Lanouette and Laurent Lemaire) on Christmas Eve. After winning the Academy Award-qualifying Grand Prize for Narrative Short at last year’s Indy Shorts International Film Festival, the h264 film has now been shortlisted for the 2022 Oscars. “I really wanted to do a [story about] ‘double coming-of-age,’ because I wanted to think and talk about how family links impact our capacity to grow,” St-Pierre tells Gold Derby in our exclusive video interview (watch above).
See 2022 Oscars shortlists in 10 categories: International Feature Film, Documentary Feature, Original Song, Score …
“I really think that… we are impacted by the path of the other members of our family,” St-Pierre continues.
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“I really think that… we are impacted by the path of the other members of our family,” St-Pierre continues.
- 1/12/2022
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
Kids know - not just things about Santa but all sorts of stuff, not least the emotions that are running through the heads of their parents. And it seems to be Santa that young Julie (Lilou Roy-Lanouette) and her brother Mathieu (Laurent Lemaine) are waiting for on this icy Christmas Eve night in the Eighties, in the bustle of their cousins' house where the sugar high of childhood meets the tipsiness of adults who are smoking and drinking their way towards midnight in the living room. The bright energy of the house - which is also brimming with strong period production design - offers a different sort of sparkle to that we can see in the eyes of Denis (Steve Laplante), steeling himself silently in a car outside to pick up his kids for Christmas, his feelings fresh from a divorce newly minted.
As Denis finally gets up his courage,...
As Denis finally gets up his courage,...
- 1/5/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Late last month we learned that Monia Chokri has found her quartet of players for her sophomore feature film set to begin production this summer. With Baby-sitter, Chokri cast herself, Patrick Hivon (her second outing with the actor), Steve Laplante and French actress Nadia Tereszkiewicz (from Dennis Berry’s 2018 title Sauvages and last year’s Venice entry Only the Animals by Dominik Moll (read review). d’Amérique Film’s Martin Paul-Hus and Phase 4 Productions’ Fabrice Lambot are producing. Chokri’s celebrated debut film was the Un Certain Regard winning La femme de mon frère (A Brother’s Love).
Gist: Based on the play by Catherine Léger, this is about a recently unemployed man who repents by writing a book of apologies to women in his former workplace.…...
Gist: Based on the play by Catherine Léger, this is about a recently unemployed man who repents by writing a book of apologies to women in his former workplace.…...
- 3/3/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Yesterday, the Quebecker section of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television revealed its full list of nominees at the 2010 Gémeaux Awards, the Quebecker equivalent of the Emmy Awards. Moreover, the award ceremony will be held in September. The following is a list of nominees mostly related to the entertainment sector of Quebecker television.
Best dramatic series:
* Aveux.
* C.A.
* Le Gentleman.
* Mirador.
* Musée Eden.
Best game show:
* Bluff.
* L'union fait la force.
* Le cercle
* Le moment de vérité.
* Tous pour un.
Best reality show:
* En route vers mon premier gala.
* Loft Story 6 - La revanche.
* Ma maison Rona.
* Rock n’Road II.
* VJ recherché.
Best comedy series:
* La galère.
* Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin.
* Les Parent.
* Rock et Rolland.
* Taxi 0-22.
Best soap opera:
* Destinées
* L'auberge du chien noir
* Providence
* Yamaska
Best humour show:
* 3600 secondes d'extase
* Comicographie
* Et Dieu créa... Laflaque
* Infoman
* Les appendices
Best direction in a dramatic series:
* Aveux.
Best dramatic series:
* Aveux.
* C.A.
* Le Gentleman.
* Mirador.
* Musée Eden.
Best game show:
* Bluff.
* L'union fait la force.
* Le cercle
* Le moment de vérité.
* Tous pour un.
Best reality show:
* En route vers mon premier gala.
* Loft Story 6 - La revanche.
* Ma maison Rona.
* Rock n’Road II.
* VJ recherché.
Best comedy series:
* La galère.
* Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin.
* Les Parent.
* Rock et Rolland.
* Taxi 0-22.
Best soap opera:
* Destinées
* L'auberge du chien noir
* Providence
* Yamaska
Best humour show:
* 3600 secondes d'extase
* Comicographie
* Et Dieu créa... Laflaque
* Infoman
* Les appendices
Best direction in a dramatic series:
* Aveux.
- 6/17/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
For the winter period, Radio-Canada, a French Canadian public TV network, had nothing serious to offer to us. While Mirador, a show created by Daniel Thibault and Isabelle Pelletier, looks full of promises because of its premise, it sinks quickly into doltishness.
First of all, Mirador is the name of a public relation firm from Montreal headed by Richard Racine (Gilles Renaud). In each episode, a client comes to see Mirador's crisis management team led by Philippe Racine (Patrick Labbé). Obviously, the mandate of Philippe's team is to rebuild the tarnished image of Mirador's given client. Besides working, Philippe also has to deal with the jaleousy of his older brother, Luc (David La Haye), who wants to head the crisis management team so badly or his ex-girlfriend, Véronique (Pascale Bussières), who is now engaged to Carl Imbeault (Sébastien Delorme), a former athlete turned into a TV personality.
First of all, Mirador is the name of a public relation firm from Montreal headed by Richard Racine (Gilles Renaud). In each episode, a client comes to see Mirador's crisis management team led by Philippe Racine (Patrick Labbé). Obviously, the mandate of Philippe's team is to rebuild the tarnished image of Mirador's given client. Besides working, Philippe also has to deal with the jaleousy of his older brother, Luc (David La Haye), who wants to head the crisis management team so badly or his ex-girlfriend, Véronique (Pascale Bussières), who is now engaged to Carl Imbeault (Sébastien Delorme), a former athlete turned into a TV personality.
- 5/9/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Tva Films, a DVD/Blu-Ray distributor, announced that the first season of Le gentleman will come out on DVD on April 20.
For those who were too busy to watch hockey on Thursday nights, Le gentleman is a crime thriller that was aired on Tva, a TV network, during fall 2009.
The show introduces us to Det. Louis Cadieux (David Boutin), a young cop who is an expert in infiltration. On one day, his girlfriend (Marianne Farley) is murdered. While he's leading an investigation of his own, Louis discovers that his girlfriend used to be a deluxe escort. In order to find the killer, he'll infiltrate the milieu of deluxe prostitution. Besides, to make things worse, Louis's partner, Richard Beauvais (Michel Barrette), believes that a serial killer is at large after the discovery of a dead male escort (Charles Bender) in an expensive apartment of Montreal. Are Louis's personal research and Richard's investigation linked together?...
For those who were too busy to watch hockey on Thursday nights, Le gentleman is a crime thriller that was aired on Tva, a TV network, during fall 2009.
The show introduces us to Det. Louis Cadieux (David Boutin), a young cop who is an expert in infiltration. On one day, his girlfriend (Marianne Farley) is murdered. While he's leading an investigation of his own, Louis discovers that his girlfriend used to be a deluxe escort. In order to find the killer, he'll infiltrate the milieu of deluxe prostitution. Besides, to make things worse, Louis's partner, Richard Beauvais (Michel Barrette), believes that a serial killer is at large after the discovery of a dead male escort (Charles Bender) in an expensive apartment of Montreal. Are Louis's personal research and Richard's investigation linked together?...
- 4/18/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Did you miss Aveux, which was penned by Serge Boucher? Well, the most acclaimed French Quebecker TV series from this fall is coming on DVD on April 20, 2010! Until then, you can watch the show on Tou.tv, Quebec's equivalent of Hulu until February 26, 2010.
Aveux is the story of Carl Laplante (Maxime Denommée), a 33 years old man. He ran away from his adoptive family and his friends from La Tuque at 18 years old after a shocking event. Fifteen years later, he lives in Montreal, is married with Brigitte (Catherine Proulx-Lemay), has a new first name (Simon) and hasn't talked to his relatives from La Tuque ever since. Besides, Simon/Carl tries to live in peace because he created a new past for himself.
From left to right: Marie-Ginette Guay and Evelyne Brochu.
However, as he was delivering an appliance with his colleague, he finds out that the owner of the house is his former neighbour,...
Aveux is the story of Carl Laplante (Maxime Denommée), a 33 years old man. He ran away from his adoptive family and his friends from La Tuque at 18 years old after a shocking event. Fifteen years later, he lives in Montreal, is married with Brigitte (Catherine Proulx-Lemay), has a new first name (Simon) and hasn't talked to his relatives from La Tuque ever since. Besides, Simon/Carl tries to live in peace because he created a new past for himself.
From left to right: Marie-Ginette Guay and Evelyne Brochu.
However, as he was delivering an appliance with his colleague, he finds out that the owner of the house is his former neighbour,...
- 2/19/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Now that CBC had unveiled its winter 2010 schedule grid, Radio-Canada, the French-language sister channel of CBC, is now doing the same thing through TV spots. The story of this very anticipated TV series is about a public relation firm offering help for people who are stuck in a scandal.
When scandals break, things get out of control and media storms start raging, it’s time to bring in the firm’s top-notch crisis management team, led by Philippe Racine. With every episode centring on a scandal, Philippe and his team are assigned the difficult task of bolstering the client’s tarnished image and using every trick in the public relations book to help him triumph in the court of public opinion, come hell or high water. At the same time, Philippe is at a turning point in his own life, desperately seeking to find meaning in his work.
The...
When scandals break, things get out of control and media storms start raging, it’s time to bring in the firm’s top-notch crisis management team, led by Philippe Racine. With every episode centring on a scandal, Philippe and his team are assigned the difficult task of bolstering the client’s tarnished image and using every trick in the public relations book to help him triumph in the court of public opinion, come hell or high water. At the same time, Philippe is at a turning point in his own life, desperately seeking to find meaning in his work.
The...
- 12/7/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
First words: congratulations Radio-Canada, the French-language sister-channel of CBC, for striving to make TV series that are on par with English Canadian and American TV series! I've just watched Aveux's season finale (which was aired two days ago) on streaming. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if this gem from playwright Serge Boucher is nominated for most of the awards at the next Prix gémeaux, Quebec's own Emmy Awards.
Aveux is the story of Carl Laplante (Maxime Denommée), a 33 years old man. He ran away from his adoptive family and his friends from La Tuque at 18 years old after a shocking event. Fifteen years later, he lives in Montreal, is married with Brigitte (Catherine Proulx-Lemay), has a new first name (Simon) and hasn't talked to his relatives from La Tuque ever since. Besides, Simon/Carl tries to live in peace because he created a new past for himself.
However, as...
Aveux is the story of Carl Laplante (Maxime Denommée), a 33 years old man. He ran away from his adoptive family and his friends from La Tuque at 18 years old after a shocking event. Fifteen years later, he lives in Montreal, is married with Brigitte (Catherine Proulx-Lemay), has a new first name (Simon) and hasn't talked to his relatives from La Tuque ever since. Besides, Simon/Carl tries to live in peace because he created a new past for himself.
However, as...
- 11/26/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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