The reality of addiction in a tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Yoan Chabot
Narrateur
1960년 12월 25일, 독실한 카톨릭 집안인 ‘볼리외’가에서 아기 예수와 같은 날에 태어난 특별한 아이 ‘자크’. 특별한 생일만큼 자크에게는 개성 넘치는 독특한 가족들이 있다. 팻시클라인을 광적으로 좋아하시는 아버지, 아들에게 초능력이 있다고 믿는 어머니, 책벌레 큰형, 까칠한 날라리 둘째형, 단순한 스포츠맨 셋째형, 먹을 것에 미친 막내 이런 가족 사이에서 유별나게 성장하는 자크의 이야기와 ‘볼리외’가의 C.R.A.Z.Y한 그들의 좌충우돌 가족사가 펼쳐진다!
Ami de Michel #3
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?
Bébert
This French-Canadian drama takes place just after JFK's assassination and provides insight into the psychological ramifications of that event with its portrayal of a love story between a confused teen and a travelling salesman in a Quebec railroad station. The date is Dec. 19, 1963 and train service has been delayed by a snow storm. Pierre-Paul is a door-to-door salesman. Chili is a despondent teenaged girl. When Pierre-Paul enters a washroom stall he is surprised to find a girl hunched over with a gun in her mouth. He runs to tell the stationmaster, but she has gone by the time they return. He tells the stationmaster that the girl was wearing a kilt. Unfortunately, the station is filled with other school girls dressed in the same outfit. Eventually Chili comes up to Pierre-Paul and a careful romance is initiated as she tells him over her troubled life.
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.
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
