François Dompierre

Películas

Allegro Ma Non Troppo
Himself
La caída del Imperio Americano
Le chef de la chorale Le Parcours
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'.
Web para infieles
Director
Ignorada por su marido alcohólico, Maren conoce a un hombre a través de una página web que facilita las infidelidades. Cuando encuentran al chico brutalmente asesinado en una habitación del hotel, las consecuencias morales de su engaño serán el menor de sus problemas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Lo más cercano al cielo
Music
Una tarde, Fanette se encuentra con Bernard, un antiguo compañero de estudios. Durante la conversación, se nombra a Philippe, el primer amor de Fanette. El recuerdo de Philippe la lleva una vez más a la sala de cine donde proyectan "An affair to remember": Cary Grant y Deborah Kerr se reencuentran finalmente, tras haberse citado en lo alto del Empire State y nunca haberse producido dicho encuentro. Fanette está escribiendo un libro sobre el pintor François Arnal y tiene que ir a Nueva York para fotografiar dos cuadros suyos. Antes de su viaje, recibe una carta en la que se fija una cita en lo alto del Empire State. Cuando llega a Nueva York conoce a Matt, un americano encantador que se siente atraído por ella, pero Fanette, obsesionada por la cita, ni siquiera repara en él.
Stardom
Music
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.
The Long Winter
Music
In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority.
The Fate of America
Music
Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Whose version of this historic event should prevail? Is history best served by documentary or fiction? We also meet Baron Georges Savarin de Marestan and Andrew Wolfe-Burroughs, direct descendants of Montcalm and Wolfe, both of whom died in the battle that would give birth to Canada and to the province of Quebec.
L'homme idéal
Music
Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other....
Danielle Steel: Cautivos del pasado
Music
Narra la historia de una mujer que, después de la muerte de su hijo y su posterior divorcio, viaja a Nueva York para emprender una nueva vida. Una vez allí, encontrará al que parece ser el amor de su vida.
Mon amie Max
Original Music Composer
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Mon amie Max
Chef d'orchestre concert Catherine
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Jesus of Montreal
Original Music Composer
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.
The Kid Brother
Music
Going through life without legs, 12-year-old Kenny is active and enthusiastic, resisting the pressure to wear prosthetic limbs. He also finds himself the subject of a documentary made by a visiting French film crew. As the production unfolds, Kenny’s parents, brother, and absentee sister bring long-simmering tensions to the surface, shaking Kenny’s delicate sense of balance. Determined to better understand his place in the world, he hits the road for a daring journey of self-discovery.
Rendezvous in Montreal
Original Music Composer
Rendezvous in Montreal is a 3D computer-animated film starring virtual actors Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.
Charles and François
Music
A touching story of the friendship between a grandfather and his grandson, this is a film about aging and death. Award-winning animator Co Hoedeman combines 3-D and cut-out animation techniques to create a very dramatic and moving film. The story follows Charles and François through the different stages of their lives. With time, they become closer, common experiences having diminished the difference in age. By the end of the film, time appears to stand still; both are over one hundred years old and they are almost indistinguishable.
El declive del imperio americano
Music
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...
Con la sangre de otros
Original Music Composer
Durante la II Guerra Mundial, en el París ocupado por las tropas alemanas, Helene duda entre el amor a su novio Jean, que trabaja para la resistencia, y el administrador alemán Bergmann, que intenta ganarse su afecto.
Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Music
A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
The Mob
Music
Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François “Chico” Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given the opportunity to earn $50,000 killing a prominent New York City gangster, he leaps at the opportunity, ignoring the warnings of Montreal’s leading mob boss, who has forbidden local criminals from taking the assignment. Upon his return, Chico discovers he is being pursued from all sides, prompting an unlikely response: he calls a local talk radio show and starts revealing the mafia’s most carefully guarded secrets. As his revelations get more shocking, so do the tactics of his adversaries, culminating in a devastating gut punch of a finale.
O.K.... Laliberté
Original Music Composer
A down-and-out man who got separated, gets his second chance in a boarding house, thanks to a friend who is a con man, and falls in love with a roommate. However, when he gets a job, his ego gets over and might lose everything he got.
IXE-13
Musical
Canuxploitation musical spy comedy.
YUL 871
Music
An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the prevailing restlessness of the age.