Director
In an era of political correctness, identity evolution, protests, cultural scandals, activism, media storms, and other disputes, an elderly man no longer having faith in humanity, discovers new landmarks and thus his happiness.
Brother Marie-Victorin, founder of Montreal’s Botanical Garden, is bored with heaven and decides to return earth to help former agronomist turned beekeeper Albert save Quebec’s flora from a multinational that is poisoning the Earth with chemicals.
Self
Writer
Pierre-Paul, de 36 años, un intelectual y doctor en filosofía se ve obligado a trabajar como repartidor para tener un salario decente. Un día, mientras entrega un paquete, se topa con la escena de un robo a mano armada que ha salido mal con un resultado de dos muertos. Se encuentra con dos bolsas de deporte repletas de billetes. Pierre-Paul se enfrenta a un dilema: largarse con las manos vacías o coger el dinero y huir... Sucesora temática de las películas de Denys Arcand 'El declive del imperio americano' y 'Las invasiones bárbaras'.
Director
Pierre-Paul, de 36 años, un intelectual y doctor en filosofía se ve obligado a trabajar como repartidor para tener un salario decente. Un día, mientras entrega un paquete, se topa con la escena de un robo a mano armada que ha salido mal con un resultado de dos muertos. Se encuentra con dos bolsas de deporte repletas de billetes. Pierre-Paul se enfrenta a un dilema: largarse con las manos vacías o coger el dinero y huir... Sucesora temática de las películas de Denys Arcand 'El declive del imperio americano' y 'Las invasiones bárbaras'.
Édouard Montpetit
In 1940s Montreal, a young man wrestles with his emotions for his domineering twin sister and his best friend's girlfriend.
Artist and writer Marc Séguin offers his first film which is about a woman named Alice who steals paintings in order to reattribute them to people who can truly appreciate their beauty.
Writer
Lucas es un arquitecto de unos treinta años que vive en la región de Charlevoix en Québec. Su vida es un sueño: está casado con una guapa entrenadora deportiva, tiene un buen grupo de amigos y disfruta de muchos deportes. Nada parece estropear su feliz vida. Sin embargo con motivo de un viaje a Toronto tiene un romance con otra mujer que se repite cuando ella visita Quebec. Mientras Lucas se enamora de su nueva conquista, su mujer, que está experimentando problemas de salud mental, piensa en el suicidio.
Director
Lucas es un arquitecto de unos treinta años que vive en la región de Charlevoix en Québec. Su vida es un sueño: está casado con una guapa entrenadora deportiva, tiene un buen grupo de amigos y disfruta de muchos deportes. Nada parece estropear su feliz vida. Sin embargo con motivo de un viaje a Toronto tiene un romance con otra mujer que se repite cuando ella visita Quebec. Mientras Lucas se enamora de su nueva conquista, su mujer, que está experimentando problemas de salud mental, piensa en el suicidio.
Maitre'D at Ritz
Basada en el best-seller homónimo del escritor canadiense Mordecai Richler. Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), un viejo productor de televisión, aficionado a la bebida y fanático del hockey, lleva una vida bastante caótica. Se ha casado tres veces, tiene un padre extravagante (Dustin Hoffman) y un amigo encantador (Scott Speedman).
Self
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Self
M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art. Fifty years later, can mathematician Hendrik Lenstra complete it? Should he?
Screenplay
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.
Director
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.
Self
Thanks to the development of techniques and the adventurous spirit of pioneering filmmakers, among whom Michel Brault occupies a central place, a new way of making cinema was born at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. This film relevantly retraces the history of a collective movement which revolutionized production and filming methods in Quebec and the world.
Propriétaire du bar
Four talented women become finalists in a singing competition.
Self
This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers.
Unionist (uncredited)
Rémy está hospitalizado y su exmujer llama al hijo de ambos, Sébastien, para que acuda a visitar a su padre. El joven decide que, para animar a su progenitor, debe reunir a su antiguo grupo de amigos, supervivientes del naufragio de la contracultura
Screenplay
Rémy está hospitalizado y su exmujer llama al hijo de ambos, Sébastien, para que acuda a visitar a su padre. El joven decide que, para animar a su progenitor, debe reunir a su antiguo grupo de amigos, supervivientes del naufragio de la contracultura
Director
Rémy está hospitalizado y su exmujer llama al hijo de ambos, Sébastien, para que acuda a visitar a su padre. El joven decide que, para animar a su progenitor, debe reunir a su antiguo grupo de amigos, supervivientes del naufragio de la contracultura
Writer
Tina Menzhal es una guapa adolescente que lleva una vida tranquila en un pequeño y remoto pueblo canadiense. Tras ser descubierta por un cazatalentos de una agencia de moda, se traslada a la gran ciudad y se integra en el mundo sofisticado y superficial de las pasarelas, las sesiones de fotos y las fiestas llenas de glamour. Cuanto más crece su éxito como modelo, mayor será el acoso de los medios de comunicación. Drama sobre la vacuidad de la fama.
Director
Tina Menzhal es una guapa adolescente que lleva una vida tranquila en un pequeño y remoto pueblo canadiense. Tras ser descubierta por un cazatalentos de una agencia de moda, se traslada a la gran ciudad y se integra en el mundo sofisticado y superficial de las pasarelas, las sesiones de fotos y las fiestas llenas de glamour. Cuanto más crece su éxito como modelo, mayor será el acoso de los medios de comunicación. Drama sobre la vacuidad de la fama.
Director
Marcel and Joseph are tireless walkers. Their itinerary is an invitation to discover improbable places and fascinating people. Everlastingly looking for Stanley, Marcel’s only friend, they meet an unlikely crowd of extravagant characters. Each has a story to tell, his hope to share.
Director
El canadiense Arcand, director de "El declive del imperio americano" (The Decline of the American Empire, 1986) continúa su radiografía de las relaciones personales con una particular visión caleidoscópica de variaciones sexuales y amores no correspondidos. David, un camarero gay, antiguo niño prodigio de la tele, sueña con ser actor. Vive con Candy, una mujer hastiada de los hombres, pero pronto se les unen Kane, un adolescente enamorado de David, y Jerri, una lesbiana locamente enamorada de Candy.
Director
Léolo es un niño que vive en un humilde barrio de Montreal, atrapado en una sórdida existencia. Cada noche intenta evadirse por medio de los recuerdos, los sueños y su desbordante imaginación, pero la cruda realidad familiar interrumpe siempre sus fantasías: tiene un padre obsesionado por la salud intestinal de toda la familia, un hermano culturista que vive preso del miedo, dos hermanas que padecen trastornos mentales, un abuelo a quien nadie presta demasiada atención y una madre enorme que domina el microcosmos familiar.
Denys Arcand
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
Director
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
Writer
En Montreal, un joven artista acepta la propuesta de un sacerdote para representar la Pasión de Cristo en los jardines de la parroquia, interpretando él mismo el papel de Jesús. No tardan en darse lugar las desavenencias entre el equipo artístico y la comunidad parroquial.
Juge
En Montreal, un joven artista acepta la propuesta de un sacerdote para representar la Pasión de Cristo en los jardines de la parroquia, interpretando él mismo el papel de Jesús. No tardan en darse lugar las desavenencias entre el equipo artístico y la comunidad parroquial.
Director
En Montreal, un joven artista acepta la propuesta de un sacerdote para representar la Pasión de Cristo en los jardines de la parroquia, interpretando él mismo el papel de Jesús. No tardan en darse lugar las desavenencias entre el equipo artístico y la comunidad parroquial.
Self
Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film critics and historians on the role and influence of the NFB during its first half century of existence.
Man at peep-show
Marcel acaba de salir de la cárcel e intenta recuperar sus relaciones con su novia Julie -que ahora es prostituta- y con su padre Albert -que piensa que su hijo ha estado fuera todo este tiempo en un largo viaje fuera de Montreal-. Pero las cosas no serán fáciles, especialmente cuando es perseguido por dos policías corruptos que van detrás del dinero del tráfico de drogas que Marcel guardó antes de ir a prisión. (FILMAFFINITY)
Screenplay
Uno de los grandes éxitos del cine canadiense de los años ochenta. El director francófono -natural de Quebec- Denys Arcand retrata dos grupos, uno de hombres y otro de mujeres, que hablan de sexo, de sus fantasías, sus fustraciones, sus intimidades...
Director
Uno de los grandes éxitos del cine canadiense de los años ochenta. El director francófono -natural de Quebec- Denys Arcand retrata dos grupos, uno de hombres y otro de mujeres, que hablan de sexo, de sus fantasías, sus fustraciones, sus intimidades...
Scenario Writer
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
Director
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman he had met. But his catholic background and surrounding can't let him love another woman or divorce from his wife. So Ovide finishes with Marie and plans a trip with Rita hoping for reconciliation. At the last instant he announces to Rita that he can't make the trip. She goes alone. The plane explodes, and Ovide is suspected and arrested for this horrible crime.
Director
Made shortly after the referendum on Quebec's independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians' promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.
Writer
Made shortly after the referendum on Quebec's independence was held, this documentary illustrates what the politicians' promises were and how the population did not really care nor truly understand what was really at stake, even though just about everyone had an opinion on the subject.
Jean-Paul
Recuerda que puedes ver esta película en http://www.wopelis.com
Director
Una bella stripper comienza a matar criminales para vengarse de aquellos que la violaron tiempo atrás en la habitación de un motel.
Rocket
The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.
Sam Tannebaum's bodyguard (uncredited)
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Editor
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Writer
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Director
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
Writer
This film establishes a parallel between the 1970 electoral campaign in Québec and the 1936 campaign dominated by Maurice Duplessis. It shows the hope but also the uncertainty that existed in 1970. Had the Quiet Revolution really changed things in Québec? Was it possible that a new leader would emerge on the political scene? (NFB.ca)
Director
This film establishes a parallel between the 1970 electoral campaign in Québec and the 1936 campaign dominated by Maurice Duplessis. It shows the hope but also the uncertainty that existed in 1970. Had the Quiet Revolution really changed things in Québec? Was it possible that a new leader would emerge on the political scene? (NFB.ca)
Detective
This French-Canadian crime/action drama, which satirizes U.S. crime films, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 and was well received. In the picture, perfectly ordinary people murder, steal, and torture one another with casual abandon in order to solve their everyday problems.
Director
This French-Canadian crime/action drama, which satirizes U.S. crime films, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 and was well received. In the picture, perfectly ordinary people murder, steal, and torture one another with casual abandon in order to solve their everyday problems.
One evening a man watches eight movies simultaneously on television.
Director
Director Denys Arcand made an inquiry on textile industry in Quebec, meeting employers and workers of that industry.
Writer
A young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.
Director
1966 PARCS ATLANTIQUES Best Short Film Award, UNESCO, Brussels, 1967 An exploration of three of Canada's national parks: Fundy, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton Highlands, all on the Atlantic coast, where, by filmmaker's licence, boy meets girl, marries and has a family, all while enjoying the parks' many facilities for campers. Even the girl's little white car, which leads us to the parks at the outset, seems to run on the pure air and the anticipation of fresh adventures around every turn. - NFB
Editor
An encounter between Russian and American volleyball teams, presented more as an essay in the choreography of the players' movements than as a play-by-play report of a sports event. Various camera tricks are used to dramatize the action, notably stop-motion, that freezes the ballet-like leaps and postures of the players. The film has jazz background music. -NFB
Director
An encounter between Russian and American volleyball teams, presented more as an essay in the choreography of the players' movements than as a play-by-play report of a sports event. Various camera tricks are used to dramatize the action, notably stop-motion, that freezes the ballet-like leaps and postures of the players. The film has jazz background music. -NFB
Director
From dawn to night, Montreal is a living reality, with many faces, many occupations, and the uncertain and blurred colors of industrial cities. The film illustrates different aspects of this reality: the cosmopolitan Montreal, the anthropological Montreal and the plastic Montreal. Images: Electric wires; poles; view of houses and cars; airplane; bridge; men working on construction; mechanical crane pulley; mechanical crane in the street; men walking on constructions (scaffolding); skyscraper; park; lovers lying in the grass; canoe; children in a park; children on a boat; sailboats; bathers; factory chimney; quarry; CN locomotive; public market; traffic of cars and pedestrians; lights shining in the evening; fireworks
Writer
When was Canada populated by Native Americans from the West? This film relates the discovery of the New World from the time of the Vikings, around 880, to Jacques Cartier.
Director
When was Canada populated by Native Americans from the West? This film relates the discovery of the New World from the time of the Vikings, around 880, to Jacques Cartier.
Director
Today it is the city of Montreal, but 3 centuries ago the tiny band of missionary founders called it Ville-Marie, the holy city of Mary. This film goes back to its beginning and those who felt called to plant an oasis of Christianity in the North American wilderness. In an imaginative, at times almost surrealistic, way the film recalls the highborn company from France, and shows what survives of Ville-Marie in the Montreal of today.
Writer
The story of a young university student who deals with love in the midst of the Quebec separatist movement in the 1960s.
Writer
Footage of Québec City locations and the artwork of well-known Quebec animator Frédéric Back are used to tell the tale of Champlain’s life in New France – from his first explorations and settlement to his death in 1635.
Director
Footage of Québec City locations and the artwork of well-known Quebec animator Frédéric Back are used to tell the tale of Champlain’s life in New France – from his first explorations and settlement to his death in 1635.
Writer
Writer
Explorer, colonizer, founder of Québec, discoverer of Lake Champlain, governor of New France, cartographer and writer--few men in Canadian history had a more adventurous and varied career than Champlain. This film presents an exciting picture-study of the man and his time.
Director
Explorer, colonizer, founder of Québec, discoverer of Lake Champlain, governor of New France, cartographer and writer--few men in Canadian history had a more adventurous and varied career than Champlain. This film presents an exciting picture-study of the man and his time.
Writer
At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length film centered on the perks of student life. The film mixes fiction and reality in the style of cinéma vérité. "Alone or with others" is often considered the first indepent film of Québec.
Director
At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length film centered on the perks of student life. The film mixes fiction and reality in the style of cinéma vérité. "Alone or with others" is often considered the first indepent film of Québec.
