Gilles Pelletier
Nascimento : 1925-03-22, Québec, Canada
Morte : 2018-09-05
Fernad
David happily brings his wife and new baby to his parents to celebrate his birthday. All goes well until the next day, when he finds that his mother – a filmmaker – has committed suicide. His second shock comes on the day of the funeral, when he is told that the man who raised him is not his biological father. Bewildered, he starts to look for answers and finds a hidden side of his mother’s life.
Man
A white room. The aging bodies of actors Gilles Pelletier and Françoise Graton testify to a love that has triumphed over time and a captivating lover's dialogue emerges between two octogenarian bodies defying inertia, old age and death. With music by the group Forêt, this sensuous short film depicts the tremblings of desire and the most elemental components of love.
Grand-papa
Romaine, a tall thirty-year-old woman, has not found herself yet. She has been living for several years with her boyfriend Justin. When, overnight, the latter drags her after him to Canada in order to start a new life, she blows smoke. Not only does she hate surprises but she is scared to death of taking the plane. Once in Montréal Airport, she dumps Justin after confessing to him things he would rather not have heard. Her Far North adventures can start...
Raymond Leclerc
Em seus sonhos, Jean-Marc LeBlanc (Marc Labrèche) é um cavaleiro valente, uma estrela dos palcos, um artista que vive com mulheres a seus pés e em sua cama. Mas, na realidade, é um sujeito muito diferente. Cidadão comum, seu trabalho é ouvir pacientemente pessoas que chegam a seu departamento procurando ajuda. Em casa, sua mulher está muito ocupada para prestar atenção nele e seus filhos adolescentes não lhe dão a mínima. A tentação de seguir vivendo em sua terra de sonhos é muito grande, mas Jean-Marc decide se dar uma última chance no mundo real.
Grandfather
A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Daniel it's been especially hard; when his father dives into work in an attempt to keep his grief at bay, Daniel starts causing mischief around the neighborhood with his best friends William and Colin. When the kids catch wind of a canine.
Priest Raymond Leclerc
À beira da morte e com dificuldades em aceitar seu passado, Rémy busca encontrar a paz. Para tanto recebe a ajuda de Sébastien, seu filho ausente, sua ex-mulher e velhos amigos.
Alphonse Pinsonneault
A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
M. Fréchette
This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic circumstances.
Fr. Leclerc
Um grupo de atores começa a fazer uma versão teatral de A Paixão de Cristo, que é aclamada pelo público, mas vista com maus olhos pela Igreja.
Monsieur Lemieux (Pierre's father)
In this melodrama, Marie and Pierre (Danielle Proulx and Marc Messier) are a comfortably middle-class couple who want the ultimate accessory: a baby. Their efforts to conceive naturally have been unsuccessful, so they decide to try using the newest artificial methods of conception. Unfortunately for them, the clinician they contact for help is also given to conducting unauthorized experiments on the human lifespan, cloning, etc. Eventually the fertilization effort is successful, and Marie has conceived quadruplets. The couple discusses this situation while driving, and are killed in an auto accident.
Doctor Loiselle
Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.
Pierre
A young photographer is entangled in a terrorist plot against a right wing politician in an election campaign.
Le curé
Father Benoit (uncredited)
Em A Tortura do Silêncio, o padre Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift), aparentemente um modelo da piedade religiosa, ouve a confissão de um assassino. Testemunhar o ocorrido a partir do ponto de vista do matador e as normas da igreja impedem Logan de falar - mesmo que seja em sua própria defesa - quando evidências circunstanciais apontam o padre como o principal suspeito!
Townsman (uncredited)
É a estória de um médico em um hospital no Canadá, na província de Quebec, que recebe uma série de cartas. Posteriormente, mais cartas, todas assinadas por um misterioso pseudônimo "Raven", são liberadas para outras pessoas na pequena cidade canadense. A esposa do médico recebe uma carta acusando-a de ter um caso amoroso extraconjugal. Outra carta informa a um veterano de guerra, que fica chocado, que ele está morrendo de câncer, levando-o ao suicídio. Em breve, todos os habitantes da cidade estarão apontando os dedos para todos os possíveis suspeitos.