Jean-Pierre Cartier

Jean-Pierre Cartier

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Jean-Pierre Cartier

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Lucien Brouillard
Une amie d'enfance
Gaston
A dinner reunion of two childhood friends and their spouses turns into a disaster when they realize they have radically different lifestyles. - IMDb
Panique
Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.
Je suis loin de toi mignonne
Un voisin
In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage.
Parlez-nous d'amour
Le régisseur
A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
Orderers
Prison's Guardian
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
L'exil
Summoned by his bosses to broadcast only neutral information, Jean, a reporter, leaves town with his friend to go and collect testimonies from simple people, in the heart of the Laurentians, and reach out to them and outside society at genuine freedom, happiness. The departure is joyous, but the isolation in which they confine themselves does not bring either of them the results they expected. The adventure ends in failure. Would it be an illusion to believe that one can escape the community to which one belongs?
The Apprentice
Dock
In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with a thin resume and no college units. He has a fiancée, Michelle, but his head is turned by a free-spirited model, from the U.S., who saw him being fired and comes to his flat to apologize. She's Elizabeth, a combination of feckless innocence and sexual freedom. Jean-Pierre borrows money from his outlaw friend, Dock, and buys clothes to impress Elizabeth. Soon he's sleeping with her, and he pulls a theft with Dock to get money to take her to Acapulco. Michelle tries to bring him back to her orbit. Is there a way out for Jean-Pierre?
Those Damned Savages
Police officer
A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.
Red the Half Breed
Sgt. Senecal
A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. But when he is accused of murdering his half-sister who was killed with his rifle, he flees to an indian village. He doesn't feel any more at home there than in the white city. He decides to go back to find and punish the killer.
Q-Bec My Love
In this satire of sexuality in the entertainment industry and voyeurism, a woman maintains 3 romantic relationships simultaneously: with her husband, with her boss, and with her lover.