This year’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma screened many titles from what we could call a new wave of independant local filmmakers. Let’s not jump to conclusions thought, there’s always been directors making movies in Québec without government fundings and, in the era of digital, we won’t stop hearing from them anytime soon. The novelty is the sudden arrival of many young artists whose low-budget features travel all around the world in major festivals where they win awards and gather mostly positive reviews.
Rafaël Ouellet’s Derrière moi (Behind Me) can be considered as the perfect exemple of what is going on outside of the mainstream circle. His second film had it’s world premiere at Tiff in the prestigious Vanguard category and was later screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Besides that, the sense of continuity between Derrière moi and Le cèdre penché, Ouellet’s first work,...
Rafaël Ouellet’s Derrière moi (Behind Me) can be considered as the perfect exemple of what is going on outside of the mainstream circle. His second film had it’s world premiere at Tiff in the prestigious Vanguard category and was later screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Besides that, the sense of continuity between Derrière moi and Le cèdre penché, Ouellet’s first work,...
- 10/25/2008
- by Simon Laperriere
- Screen Anarchy
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