At the Palacio, an all-inclusive resort in the carribean, Mike's arrival complicates the normal flow of operations. His voracious appetite, mysterious magnetism and unexpected miracles bring him the curious, among which he makes three friends and meeets a few admirers, a jealous salsa teacher and an enamored octopus. All of whom will accompany him in a gargantuan downward spiral mixing civil unrest and intestinal meltdown; a change of administration held up by the most attentive staff in the world.
In 2010, in Vancouver, American actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, drew national media attention when they requested refugee status in Canada. Originally wanted in the United States for fraud, the Quaids claim that influential figures in Hollywood were plotting against them to steal everything from them. And there was more: they claimed their life was in danger, like those of other American actors who, they alleged, had died at the hands of the mysterious “Hollywood Star Whackers”. After their application for asylum was denied, Randy and Evi Quaid then disappeared without a trace. Showing a theatrical flair, the couple came up for air early in 2015, releasing Web videos from an apartment in Montreal...
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.
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.
