Paul Hébert

In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority.

A philandering wife and a sleazy womanizing con-man team up to off a troublesome father-in-law in this acid-tinged French Canadian black comedy. Leon, the con-artist makes his living cheating Catholic bingo players by hosting bogus religious pilgrimages. He is involved with a woman, but that doesn't stop him from getting involved with the frustrated Sophie who hates living in a tiny apartment with her lazy husband, her ever-gloomy teenage daughter and her husband's demanding, self-centered father, Emile. Sophie is so desperate to escape and start a new life that she convinces Leon to help her kill Emile who allegedly has $150,000 tucked away. The murder is to occur during one of Leon's pilgrimages. He convinces his son Paolo, an ex-con, to assist. Despite their careful planning, nothing prepares the would-be killers for the surprising result.

The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel (16), unmarried and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young priest, under the confidentiality of the confessional. In the present year of 1989, Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc, who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Quebec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrigue where the answer to the mystery lies.

The story is of a young man, Stevens, who returns to his native village after a five year exile caused by a violent quarrel with his father. The story revolves around the women in Stevens life and the affects of his presence.

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.

A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.

A martian comes to a small town in Quebec and becomes friends with the town children. He gives them candy to get the children into his spacecraft. This alarms the parents but he wins them over and they have a great big Christmas party.

Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to leave the city (set in Toronto) to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents promise a summer trip that doesn't pan out.

A mysterious history, esoteric formulas pronounced by entreated seeking to dominate the world.

많은 사람들이 이 작품을 로베르 브레송의 대표작이자 걸작 중 하나로 꼽는다. 그만큼 이 영화는 브레송이 일생 동안 만든 '시네마토그라피'(단순히 '시네마'가 아니라)의 대표적인 특징들을 고스란히 담고 있다. 병든 엄마와 아직 갓난아이인 동생을 돌봐야 하고, 의붓아버지에게 학대받으면서 학교에서도 철저하게 소외되는 한 소녀가 있다. 이 소녀에게 찾아오는 평범하지 않은 갑작스러운 사랑과 연이은 엄마의 죽음. 그리고 결국 종국에 맞닥뜨리게 되는 소녀의 자살. 단순한 스토리라인은 배경음악이나 연기, 카메라워크에 의한 어떠한 감정적인 조장도 없이 단선적이고 건조하게 진행된다. 거기에다 부엌에서 그릇이나 식기를 다루는 소녀의 손과 같은 무의미한 듯하지만 범상치 않은 신체 일부의 클로즈업이 곳곳에 배치되어 있다. 브레송은 눈물샘을 자극하는 감각적인 영화가 아니라, 마치 손으로 만지는 것 같은 촉각적인 영화를 만들어내었다. 지금까지 대면해온 영화들 속에 어떤 식으로도 포섭되지 않는 이 영화를 보면서 그 익숙하지 않음이 오히려 소름끼치고, 눈물을 보일 수 없도록 만들지만 미어지게 가슴이 아픈, 흔치 않은 감동을 경험하게 될 것이다.

On Christmas Eve, snowplow driver Leo races to clear the streets of Montreal and complete his holiday shopping in time for midnight Mass. The feature directorial debut of celebrated filmmaker Gilles Carle (The Death of a Lumberjack), The Merry World of Leopold Z is an offbeat holiday treat that builds to a disarmingly resonant conclusion.

An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.