Hugo Giroux

Hugo Giroux

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Hugo Giroux
Hugo Giroux

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Le gangster et le ministre
Lines of Escape
Voix TV (voice)
A dramatic comedy that invites us to an eventful reunion between three high school friends. As the evening progresses, the young thirtysomethings form an increasingly discordant trio.
Boris sin Béatrice
Conseiller de district Paillé
Boris Malinowski es un hombre que ha logrado todos sus objetivos en la vida. Mientras que su esposa, Beatrice, Ministra del Gobierno de Canadá, se encuentra en la cama por una enfermedad desconocida, Boris trata de evadirse y hacer frente a sus necesidades emocionales con su compañera de trabajo Helga y su empleada doméstica, Klara.
Chasse-Galerie : La Légende
Tenancier
In 1863, a group of snow-bound travelers invokes the devil, who gives them a flying canoe for them to go home. When one of them finds his wife about to die in labor, he makes a pact with the devil to save her and his newborn daughter Liza. He then cheats the devil of his prize by sacrificing himself. 25 years later, Liza wants to marry her beloved Jos, who has to go away to a remote logging camp to earn money to save his farm, but the devil is determined to ruin her happiness.
Le Cœur de Madame Sabali
Bruno
The film is centered on the strange, beautiful and emotional story of Jeannette Sabali. When her boyfriend Bruno stops making love with her, Jeannette begins an affair with a young co-worker (Francis LaHaye). Alas, it turns out that her heart problems are physical as well as metaphorical. When Jeannette inherits the heart of a deceased Malian woman, she’s befriended by her donor’s teenaged son (Youssef Camara), who’s convinced that she’s the reincarnation of his late mother. It turns out that he might just be on to something.
1987
Portier du Dagobert
In 1987, Ricardo is 17 years old. This summer, Ricardo has a busy schedule: loose his virginity, find a way to get into bars, have a car, spend time with his friends. In order to rapidly make money, Ricardo decides to use his italian inheritance and take a shortcut in the medium of crime. But things will go wrong...
Ésimésac
Gars du train
With the villagers of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton barely having enough food to survive, Ésimésac convinces them to collaborate on a community garden. Each person will multiply his or her yield by cultivating the land together. At the same time, talk of a new railway line promises to connect Saint-Élie-de-Caxton to the rest of the world and brings the hope of abundance. Riopel, the hulking blacksmith, starts working on the railway track and convinces the locals to invest in his project rather than waste their time playing in the garden. Ésimésac’s big project flounders under the weight of metal. But can he really stop progress?
L'Affaire Dumont
Enquêteur
Michel Dumont is charged, judged and sentenced for a rape he denies ever having committed. While he serves his time in prison, Solange, who he fell in love with during his trial, embarks on the colossal task of proving his innocence and having the court rehabilitate him.
Les facettes
Manigances
Claude Pellerin
Miedo al agua
Albéni Thériault
El sargento André Surprenant lleva una vida normal en las Îles-de-la-Madeleine con su hija adolescente. Su mundo cambia cuando Rosalie Richard, una joven de 18 años y la hija del alcalde, son encontradas asesinadas y violadas en un acantilado junto al mar. El inspector Gingras llega de Montreal para tratar de resolver el asesinato. Al ver que la policía de la ciudad se centra en hechos ambiguos y parece buscar a un sospechoso predeterminado, Surprenant decide llevar a cabo su propia investigación junto a su compañera, Genevieve Saboya, que está secretamente enamorada de él. Todos los habitantes del pueblo son posibles sospechosos.
Trash
Christian
Thanks to his wife Madeleine, a social worker who saved him from the street when he was 17-years-old, Pierre Dalpé has become a prosperous entrepreneur, running a garbage-collection business in the Montreal area. His quiet happiness with his wife and their children changes when he crosses paths with Eve, a teenage drug addict/prostitute who belongs to a street gang. At the risk of destroying everything he’s built up, Pierre decides to make it his mission to help Eve get out of her unhealthy situation before she dies of an overdose, like his sister did. But in doing so, he has to confront his old demons, to Madeleine’s despair, as she feels him slipping farther away from her every day.
Lance et compte
Steve Blackburn
After an hockey game in Lac St-Jean, the National climbs into their bus and begins the long ride from Roberval to Quebec City. On one of the sharp curves around Mount Apica, catastrophe strikes. The bus slams into the mountain and half the players dies. Now the team faces its greatest challenge: rebuilding.
Curling
Gardien de prison
Set in a rural Québec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father, works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in fear that contact with the outside world will scar her the way it has him.
The Enemy Lines
Chapleau
Six men. The forest. The menace is there somewhere. Armed, ready, looking for action, they wander, day and night, striving for a confrontation.
La edad de la ignorancia
Thorvald
Jean Marc intenta evadirse de su mediocre vida por medio de la imaginación. Consigue así entrar en un mundo de fantasía donde es un gran héroe, un caballero de brillante armadura, una estrella del escenario y de la pantalla y un novelista de éxito que tiene a las mujeres rendidas a sus pies. En la vida real es un chupatintas, un marido insignificante y un padre fracasado que fuma a escondidas. Pero, a pesar de todo, no sucumbe a la fantasía y decide buscar otra oportunidad en el mundo real. "La edad de la ignorancia", que cierra la trilogía que completan "El declive del imperio americano" y "Las invasiones bárbaras", es una sátira, una reflexión moral sobre nuestra época.
Dodging the Clock
Gosselin
The passage of time is probably the only concrete proof we have that justice exists in this cruel world. Some people would like to stop time in its tracks, while others choose to follow its path. In this story, three men in their early thirties have reached that age when it's time to start thinking about "getting a life", perhaps starting a family. But how do you handle the fact that your friendships are changing? That, slowly, your new family is becoming the center of your ever-shrinking world? What do you do when you realize your youth is a thing of the past?
Elvis Gratton 3: Le retour d'Elvis Wong
Journaliste - conférence de presse
The Last Tunnel (El atraco del siglo)
Détective Gill
Marcel Talon se ve acosado por un pasado que no logra superar y se siente culpable ante los ojos de la sociedad. Para vengarse decide robar los 200 millones de dólares que se encuentran en la caja de seguridad de un banco de Montreal. Con la ayuda de un grupo muy peculiar decide excavar un túnel que llegue hasta dicha caja...
Au nord du monde
Hugo Giroux
Somewhere in northern Quebec, a small Aboriginal community is shaken by the suspicious death of three teenagers. The police investigation, which looks delicate, is entrusted to the agent Hudon of the Sûreté du Québec, posted recently on the reserve. He quickly finds himself disoriented in the face of these inexplicable deaths, a culture with which he struggles to cope ... and a Montreal journalist looking for a scoop.