Suzanne Cloutier
Nascimento : 1923-07-10, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Morte : 2003-12-02
Self - Actress (archive footage)
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
Hôtesse du restaurant
Large women with a zest for life gather weekly at a Montreal doctor's office to receive diet injections.
Virginie Beaufort
In a style evocative of Fellini at his most surreal, this bizarre French Canadian fantasy follows the romance between a young filmmaker and a bearded lady from a local circus during the 1960s. The story begins in a contemporary theater where a projectionist describes, to movie director Rex Prince, the ghostly spirit that seems to be haunting his film. The story then races backward to the 1960s when a half-mad, idealistic Rex was busily making his first film, a Marxist tract depicting poverty in Montreal. Edouard Dore, a well-connected editor works with him and it is he who takes Rex to a carnival late one night to meet the performers in a freakshow. The first person Rex meets is Le Grand Zenon, a hulking one-eyed fellow with the amazing ability to use his eye to project movie images on a screen with neither a projector nor film.
Self
Actress Suzanne Cloutier is interviewed about "Othello", Orson Welles' masterpiece, in which she played Desdemona.
Stella
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
Michele Jolivet
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
Desdemona
A tragédia envolvendo fúria, ciúme e assassinato em torno de Othello, Iago e Desdemona. Esta estranha e magnífica visão de Welles para o clássico de Shakespeare, já era a 12ª versão levada para as telas. Filmada na Itália e Marrocos, teve sérios problemas de produção, levando mais de dois anos para finalizar. Mesmo assim, Welles teve controle absoluto sob a obra, dos diálogos à montagem final. Com todas estas dificuldades para a realização de Othello e vendo o impressionante resultado final, o filme ganhou status de CultMovie. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Juliette
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard...
Maria Lambert
Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.
Yvonne Dupont
After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.