Yves Jacques

Yves Jacques

Nacimiento : 1956-05-10, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Perfil

Yves Jacques
Yves Jacques
Yves Jacques
Yves Jacques

Películas

Testament
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.
The Successor
Ellias Barnès, 30, is the newly-announced artistic director of a famous Parisian fashion house. But as expectations are high, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father's funeral and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father's weak heart.
Katak The Brave Beluga
Cyrano
The 12 Tasks of Imelda
Vétérinaire
Imelda, a larger-than-life character inspired by the director's grandmother, sets herself on a quest to settle old scores before celebrating her 100th birthday.
Embrasse
Yves Saint Laurent
Maria
Yves Jacques
When Maria thinks she's at the bottom of the barrel, she discovers that this barrel has a double bottom: no job, no money, no worthy accomplishment and now a dying mother begging her to do something with her life. before his death! She has no other choice but to get back in hand and find a career ... But what can she do with a 7-year-old BAC in communication and no work experience? Believe it or not, she can become a substitute in a high school! Thus, Maria, 30, as responsible and stable as a 14-year-old teenager, returns to high school in the role of the one to whom she threw pieces of erasers: the replacement. Too jaded teachers, rebellious teenagers, intimidated or not sufficiently denounced, she will be confronted with the reality of teachers and young people today and, who knows, may discover a vocation.
La face cachée de la Lune
Le chemin de Noël
Aline: La voz del amor
Présentateur deuxième TV
Quebec, finales de la década de los años 60. Sylvette y Anglomard dan la bienvenida a su decimocuarto hijo: Aline. En la familia Dieu, la música reina y cuando Aline crece descubren que tiene una voz prodigiosa. Cuando escucha esa voz, el productor musical Guy-Claude solo tiene una cosa en mente: hacer de Aline la mejor cantante del mundo. Biopic musical inspirado en la vida de la cantante canadiense Cèline Dion.
Night Slice
Antoine
Stuck in a depressing and mind numbing routine, Pierre decides to trade the sweaty atmosphere of the factory for the conditioned air of a hotel room. Locked up with three other tenants in a dreary and dim-lighted suite, he is forced into an idle and aimless lifestyle, no more fruitful than the mindless hustle and bustle he left behind — that is, until this oppressive dullness gives birth to an idea…
Forgotten Flowers
Marie-Victorin
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.
Ca$h Nexu$
Michel
Jimmy is trapped in a spiral of street drug addiction and withdrawal. One day, Jimmy is forced to get back in contact with his family. The pariah’s return to the pack reawakens old demons in his elder brother Nathan.
Father and Guns 2
Bernard
A few years after they infiltrated a therapy program for fathers and sons, Marc Laroche is having some issues with his girlfriend Alice and Jacques is experiencing intense denial towards the fact that he is growing older. An incredible opportunity arises when Martin Germain, the lieutenant of the Mafia’s leader, and his girlfriend sign up for a bootcamp for couples. As Marc and Alice sign up for the therapy, Jacques invites himself in by pretending to be the psychologist's assistant.
False Confessions
Dubois
Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all he can to get Araminte to fall in love with Dorante. Following his staging of Marivaux’s comedy at the Odéon theater, Luc Bondy turns the whole theater building into a film studio, placing his actors in the foyer, under the stage, in the kitchens, using the most unusual and unexpected spots to invent a new dynamic between theater and film.
Terapia Padre-Hijo
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.
Boundaries
Francis Perreault
Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
Maurice
Narrator (voice)
Everything would be fine. Maurice had made up his mind. He had made a list: pick a date, announce his retirement, sell the car, see old friends, and empty the garage. Then, die with dignity.
El reino de la belleza
Pascal Montambault
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.
Grace de Mónaco
M. Delavenne
A los 33 años, Grace Kelly, una gran estrella de Hollywood, renunció a su carrera como actriz para casarse en 1956 con el príncipe Rainiero III y convertirse en Su Alteza Serenísima la Princesa Gracia de Mónaco. La historia se ambienta en plena crisis política y económica entre Francia y Mónaco, crisis en la que la actriz americana estuvo involucrada.
Darling Trap
Nolan Smith
Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he crosses paths with beautiful Olivia...
Anna et Otto
Otto and Anna, a brother and sister in their twenties, separated by the divorce of their parents, live on two continents. The vagaries of life keep them apart.
La danse de l'albatros
Jacques
Thérèse D
L'avocat de Thérèse Desqueyroux
Adaptación de la novela homónima de François Mauriac (publicada en 1927). Se centra en Thérèse, una joven mujer libre de principios del siglo XX. Casada por obligación con Bernard Desqueyroux, insensible a los placeres de la carne, insatisfecha en el plano intelectual y, en general, aburrida de esperar, Thérèse, en un arrebato absurdo y desesperado, intenta envenenar a su esposo. Una vez desenmascarada, Thérèse cae en desgracia al haber deshonrado a su familia y a su marido. Ahora, además, tendrá que enfrentarse a la justicia.
Laurence Anyways
Michel Lafortune
Canadá /// Laurence Alia (Melvil Poupaud) es un profesor de inglés con un trabajo estable y una sólida relación con su novia Fred (Suzanne Clément). Sus vidas parecen encauzadas y sin mayores problemas hasta el día en que él cuenta a sus seres más cercanos y queridos sus planes para cambiarse de sexo.
French Immersion
Pierre-Émile
Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of St-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus, tucked away somewhere in Northern Quebec. The place is perfect for total immersion since, according to the most recent census, 99% of the population is comprised of pure laine Quebeckers for the most part unilingual French, fervently nationalist, and all, save one person, named Tremblay.
See How They Dance
George Bliss
A French video artist traverses Canada on a train that takes her from the east to the west through the snow. This journey leads her to encounter the last girlfriend of her ex-husband, an internationally respected showman who is now dead. Each of the two women will try to understand how the "man of their life" loved and lived with the other. See how they dance.
La oportunidad de mi vida
Maxime Dupont
Julien Monnier tiene un grave problema: aunque es un consejero matrimonial brillante, no es capaz de retener a una mujer a su lado más de dos semanas. La razón es que, desde su más tierna infancia, Julien es un gafe que lleva la desgracia a todas las mujeres que se enamoran de él.
Cabotins
Lady Moon
The Last Escape
Andre
Christmas approaches and the Lévesque family has once again gathered for their traditional celebration. But this time there is a mixture of emotions running through each person. The patriarch of the family suffers from a combination of Parkinson’s Disease and heart failure. His life reduced in every way, the end approaches and there are unhappy memories of his once violent and authoritarian past. But his wife, ten children and many grandchildren try to maintain a semblance of the Christmas season.
Les figures
Jean
A heartbroken mother running around in the park and asks for her missing 6-year-old son.
You'll Miss Me
André, le coiffeur
In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the plane? Julia and Marcel ... Will she avoid death or will he mess up his life? Fanny and Max ... Will she lack of courage or will he be out of luck?
48 Hours a Day
Arnaud
A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.
Un secreto
Le commandant Beraud
En la Francia de la posguerra, "Un secret" narra el descubrimiento de un oscuro secreto de una familia judía francesa. Una historia vista a través de los ojos de un fantasioso hijo único llamado François, que no sólo se inventa un hermano mayor, sino también el pasado de sus padres. El día que cumple quince años se le desvela una verdad conmovedora..
Desacuerdo perfecto
Doktor Trudeau
Alice d'Abanville, una célebre actriz londinense, y Louis Ruinard, un director de culto francés, fueron la pareja más glamourosa de los años 70. Las cinco películas que hicieron juntos tuvieron un gran éxito y se convirtieron en películas de culto. Su historia de amor acabó de repente: de manera incomprensible, Alice desapareció de la noche a la mañana. Cuando volvió a Inglaterra, se casó rápidamente con un joven Lord. Treinta años más tarde, Louis llega a Londres para rodar una nueva película. Ha elegido Inglaterra porque se trata de una comedia sobre la hipocresía y la frustración. Los responsables de los Bafta (premios de cine de la Academia Británica) deciden concederle un premio por el conjunto de su carrera y eligen a Alice para que se lo entregue.
Aurore
Curé Leduc
After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
Y tan amigos
Germain
Claude Mendelbaum es un informático gris, soltero, tímido e hipocondriaco. Desde que rompió con su novia, ha llevado una vida miserable y solitaria, pero, cuando conoce a Serge, su vida cambia por completo. Porque, aunque Serge es el polo opuesto, la compenetración entre ambos es mágica. De la mano de su nuevo amigo, Claude se propondrá poner fin a su soltería y aprender a tratar con mujeres.
El aviador
Waiter
Biografía del polifacético Howard Hughes, que heredó un poco de dinero de la compañía de su padre para trasladarse a Hollywood donde amasó un gran fortuna. Fue uno de los productores más destacados del cine americano durante la década de los treinta y cuarenta, lanzando carreras como la de Jean Harlow y llegando a ser dueño de la RKO Radio Pictures. Pero Hughes, además de productor, fue un reconocido industrial y comerciante que también tuvo su importancia en el mundo de la aviación.
Ordo
Richard Féraud
Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years earlier, is now a famous movie star called Louise Sandoli. But, more than her name, everything about Louise seems to have changed. Ordo decides to meet Estelle again, after all these years, to know what it's all about...
Las invasiones bárbaras
Claude
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
Little Lili
Serge
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
Séraphin: Heart of Stone
Notaire Le Potiron
The story takes place during the colonization of the Laurentian region in Quebec towards the end of the 19th century (approx. 1885-90), near Sainte-Adèle. An unscrupulous man, Séraphin Poudrier, dominates the small community using his wealth. Mayor of the village, he will marry Donalda Laloge, after her father, unable to repay his debt, gives her to him in marriage. Donalda, a gentle and submissive woman who was promised to the handsome Alexis Labranche, rather, he will live his life according to the wishes of this petty and contemptuous miser, but will never let his situation get him down.
The Collector
François Berger / Babette Brown
The detective Maud Graham hides her sensibility behind the image of a strong and independant woman. She frequently offers her hospitality to a 16-year-old prostitute, Grégoire, a young man who became her friend. But when the teenager decides to invite a 12-year-old boy who is running away from home, Maud is near illegality. In addition, the detective has to deal with a serial killer who had already killed and mutilated many women. When she understands that the killer is very intelligent and organized, she elaborates a strategy to arrest him. There starts a dangerous game where the two teenagers that Graham is protecting will be implied. The killer is getting closer, revealing more and more of his madness.
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
René le Canadien
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.
¡Vaya noche!
Bernard
Florence y Nicolas viven felizmente juntos. Hasta que la hermana de Nicolas les apunta a un concurso en el que consiguen ganar el primer premio; una boda con todos los gastos pagados en las Cataratas del Niagara. Sin pensárselo dos veces, deciden casarse. Apartir de entonces se suceden una serie de acontecimientos inexplicables que harán que su relación se complique a raíz del descubrimiento de las extravagancias de sus familiares...
Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon
In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front.
Requiem contre un plafond
Via crucis
Life after love
Docteur Bilodeau
After 20 years of marriage and almost perfect love, Sophie leaves her husband Gilles for another guy. Many misadventures await Gilles in his nervous breakdown, while trying to get a way to reclaim his love back to Sophie.
Of Woman and Magic
le docteur Fish
Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and worse with each passing day. The migraine attacks she suffers from indeed keep her from working as hard as she should and in despair she decides to consult Doctor Fish. When the medicine the physician prescribes for her fails, Claire, who can't take it any more, asks him to hospitalize her. In hospital, Claire shares her room with Odette, a young woman who has lost the use of her legs and Eléonore, a frightening old woman. The third episode from "The Blindfold" by Siri Hustvedt.
La viuda de Saint-Pierre
le contre-amiral
En 1849, en las isla francesa de Saint-Pierre, cerca del Canadá, dos hombres borrachos cometen un crimen absurdo. Uno de ellos es condenado a muerte, pero debe aguardar a que llegue la guillotina desde la Martinica. Durante los meses de espera, el reo ayuda en sus obras de caridad a la esposa del capitán del la guarnicion, la cual lo protege y sólo ve en él bondad y sencillez.
Le bogue de l'an 2000
Hubert Hyves
Memories Unlocked
Mortimer
In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier.
Changement de cap
Cariou
During a cruise, two women marked by life become friends.
Class Trip
The Visitor
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
Louis 19, le roi des ondes
Be careful what you wish for...it just may come true. This is the underlying theme of this French-Canadian comedy drama that follows the travails of a TV addict who wins a talent contest and finds himself the subject of an embarrassingly revealing television series. Louis Jobin is a rather depressive young salesman who works in an electronics store. At night he is a passionate channel surfer, sitting upon his couch staring at his television. When Channel 19 announces a talent contest. Louis immediately enters. The contest winner will become the subject of a TV show with Channel 19 filming every movement, 24 hours a day for three months. Louis wins the contest and is at first elated by his prize but then begins to feel otherwise after he becomes a celebrity.
Montreal Stories
Accessoiriste studio
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.
Milena
Max Brod
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.
Duplex
Albert
An archaeologist who has been charged with bringing a pre-Columbian statue back to France meets a journalist during a stay in the jails of South American revolutionaries.
Ding et Dong : Le film
Jigi
Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves
Jesus of Montreal
Richard Cardinal
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.
El declive del imperio americano
Claude
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...
Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
Bob
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.
Red Eyes
A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their investigations, though detective Édouard Lambert does a little sleuthing on his own.
Les jours heureux
Yves
Emma, a lesbian conductor, is confronted with a toxic relationship with her father.