Dorothée Berryman

Dorothée Berryman

Nascimento : 1948-04-28, Québec City, Québec, Canada

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Dorothée Berryman

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Forgotten Flowers
Dorothée Berryman
Brother Marie-Victorin, founder of Montreal’s Botanical Garden, is bored with heaven and decides to return earth to help former agronomist turned beekeeper Albert save Quebec’s flora from a multinational that is poisoning the Earth with chemicals.
Innocent
Francis is being interrogated about a series of crimes he might be guilty of.
Moodland
Monique
Strange dreams caused by unusual weather changes are leading a suburban housewife to abandon her husband and children.
French Immersion
Thérèse Tremblay
Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of St-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus, tucked away somewhere in Northern Quebec. The place is perfect for total immersion since, according to the most recent census, 99% of the population is comprised of pure laine Quebeckers for the most part unilingual French, fervently nationalist, and all, save one person, named Tremblay.
Um Amor por Acaso
la Mère de Jack
Jack ganha uma viagem para Paris, depois de ser abandonado por sua namorada. No desembarque, ele perde sua mala, que vai parar nas mãos de Chloe. Ela, ao abrir a mala, fica encantada e sonha conhecer o dono da bagagem perdida.
Daniel and the Superdogs
Principal
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.
Jack Paradise (Les nuits de Montréal)
Tante Jeanne
My Only Love
Bibiane Guérin
The unexpected acquaintance with a young prostitute helps the venerable writer to overcome writer's block. Quite shocking story of her life inspires him for a new book.
As Invasões Bárbaras
Louise
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.
Le nèg'
Femme de ménage
In the middle of the night, in the Québec countryside, all hell breaks loose as a black teenager is caught smashing a racially denigrating lawn ornament. Together the neighbours attend to justice against the vandal. Thorough the night there is mounting racism, fueled by alcohol, and violence. Le Nèg' opens the morning after when the police investigators arrive at the scene to take depositions.
No Ordinary Baby
Dr. Friedlander
A reporter (Bridget Fonda) gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the doctor (Mary Beth Hurt) responsible for creating the clone.
Crème glacée, chocolat et autres consolations
Micheline
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Mrs. Lincoln
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.
The Audrey Hepburn Story
Ella's Friend
The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in the U.S. where she succeeds in making it big as a movie actress, in such movies as Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Winter Lily
Agatha
In a remote part of New England, Clive arrives at Memory Lane, a rustic bed&breakfast. After being welcomed by the charming hostess, Agatha, he soon discovers a diary filled with mystery about the hostess' daughter, Lily. His natural curiosity turns into obsession as he desperately tries to solve the mystery surrounding the girl. Lily's presence is felt througout the house, but why is she kept out of sight? The more he seeks out the truth, the more he is caught in a whirlwind of obscurity, deception and torment and falls straight into the deadly trap set by his friendly hostess.
Mulheres Entre o Céu e o Inferno
Bag Lady
In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and the other a psychologist, watch the last few days of their lives on a TV screen. Both are having affairs with married men, each has a long encounter with her lover's wife, and both these scenes take place in a ladies' room, one backstage at a play that's about to preview, the other at an opera house during the first act. The relationships between each pair of younger and older women take surprising turns, and in the room with the TV, a sylph asks probing and challenging questions of the two young women as they watch.
You Can Thank Me Later
Marie Josée
In this Canadian comedy-drama, Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital -- failed writer Eli, neurotic Susan, and successful theatrical producer Edward. An onslaught of one-liners find targets amid sibling rivalries and angst-ridden animosities.
La petite histoire d'un homme sans histoire
Médecin
A man in his mid-40s is killed by a truck just after receiving a prescription against death from his doctor. He then regains consciousness in a video store, and with some further difficulties, receives a film of his life. Although full of factual inaccuracies, it is an enjoyable examination of his birth, youth, marriage, family and death. Unfortunately, his request for a sequel is denied, and as he advances down the corridor to God, technical difficulties are experienced.
Taken
Sandra Mathers
A kidnapped businessman, finding out that no one is willing to pay the ransom to save his life, befriends his aggressor.
Loucos Por Dinheiro
Miss Jensen
No Dakota do Norte o diretor de um presídio, Sven “Sueco” Sorenson, controla tanto sua casa como a prisão com mão de ferro. Ele executa um condenado que tentou fugir e, quando suas duas filhas Inga (Christin Watson) e Liv (Holly Watson), mentem dizendo que estão grávidas, ele “convoca” os responsáveis, Bud (Charlie Sheen) e Larry (Thomas Harden Church), e os faz casar em tempo recorde. Paralelamente chega à cidade uma agente do F.B.I., Karen Polarski (Mira Sorvino), que por acaso é filha de um corrupto juiz local, Rolf Rausenberg (Donald Sutherland), mas, ao contrário do pai, ela é bem íntegra. Karen quer averiguar a morte do prisioneiro fugitivo, pois há indícios de que foi execução. Enquanto isto Sorenson dá várias tarefas para seus cunhados, deixando-os em um regime de quase escravidão. Sem querer ficar sempre nesta situação, Bud e Larry planejam fugir, mas antes querem roubar um trem que leva um grande carregamento de dinheiro.
O Violino Vermelho
Secretary (Montréal)
Em 1681 um artesão italiano, reconhecido pela qualidade dos violinos que construía, faz sua obra-prima para presentear o filho que estava prestes a nascer. Sua esposa acaba morrendo no parto, e inconformado, o artesão doa o instrumento para um orfanato. Mais de 300 anos depois várias pessoas estão num leilão disputando o instrumento, e o filme percorre então a sua história, desde a doação até o leilão.
The Haven
Cécile Sirois
Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.
Pretty Poison
Bea
A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.
Zigrail
Mère d'André
The Clean Machine
mère de Charles
Three children, Benoît, Charles and Marie, provide housekeeping services to creatively spend their time during the summer school vacations while making extra pocket money. Their small business becomes very successful in the neighborhood, but goes terribly wrong when jealousy, sabotage, fraud, and a failed love story begin.
Scanners II - A Força do Poder
Mayor
David Kellum chega na cidade para estudar veterinária, mas logo descobre ser um scanner. Depois de usar seus poderes para explodir o telhado de uma loja de conveniência roubada, ele é recrutado pelo comandante de polícia Wayne Forrester que começa a usar os poderes de David para fazer o prefeito indicá-lo como Chefe de Polícia. Mas quando David descobre que o plano de Forrester é na verdade a criação de uma polícia estatal comandada por scanners, ele foge. Perseguido por Forrester, pela polícia e pelo seu scanner favorito, o louco Peter Drak, David parte em busca de seu passado. Ele conecta-se com sua irmã Alice e juntos tentam parar Forrester e o sinistro instituto neurológico onde ele está.
The Pianist
Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them during their high school years. The film is set during the family's reunion on Vancouver Island and flashes back and forth over the last 10 years. By coincidence, Yoshi who is now a world famous Pianist is giving a concert in Vancouver and Amy is anxious to see him again but her sister curiously is not at all interested. The girls explore old passions, stalking, sibling rivalry and wrong life choice based on the fantasies of their youth.
Ding et Dong : Le film
Directrice de production
Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves
Back Stab
Juliet Powell
A man is seduced by a stranger and awakens to a corpse.
A Paper Wedding
Annie
A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.
O Declínio do Império Americano
Louise
Enquanto preparam um jantar, quatro homens conversam entre si sobre assuntos diversos. Ao mesmo tempo, em uma academia de ginástica, quatro mulheres conversam sobre os problemas de relacionamento entre homens e mulheres.
The Mob
Rita
Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François “Chico” Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given the opportunity to earn $50,000 killing a prominent New York City gangster, he leaps at the opportunity, ignoring the warnings of Montreal’s leading mob boss, who has forbidden local criminals from taking the assignment. Upon his return, Chico discovers he is being pursued from all sides, prompting an unlikely response: he calls a local talk radio show and starts revealing the mafia’s most carefully guarded secrets. As his revelations get more shocking, so do the tactics of his adversaries, culminating in a devastating gut punch of a finale.
Gina
Um grupo de rapazes vai ao interior do Canadá fazer um documentário sobre as condições de trabalho na indústria têxtil local. No motel em que se hospedam, eles conhecem e fazem amizade com a stripper Gina. Enquanto a equipe de filmagem enfrenta a resistência e o boicote dos chefes das fábricas, Gina é vítima de um estupro coletivo perpetrado por uma gangue de arruaceiros. Enfurecida, ela põe em prática um plano implacável de vingança.
Les « troubbes » de Johnny
Mathilda
A pleasant fantasy about the setbacks experienced by a young man who loves costumes. His wife having left him, he goes after her to live some rather funny adventures.
Dying Alive
Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve. Luc, a retired pediatrician and teacher in his eighties, lives with his son François, a pediatrician like his father, and François' wife Esther. Suffering and physically diminished, the old man has now decided to end his life. In a corrosive and sensitive verbal joust, he asks his son to end his days in privacy. The son then takes him on an existential and circus-like journey through the streets of Montreal where the father is supposed to go to his final destination, a hospital where he will be confronted with his ultimate wish: the choice between the finality of medical aid to die or a return to square one, the small pleasures of what remains of his life, alive.
The Automaton and the Magic Spell
Narrator (voice)
An introduction to the world of French composer Maurice Ravel through The String Quartet in F major, performed by the Canadian ensemble Quatuor Arthur Leblanc. The four movements of the quartet are presented on screen by dance segments recreating key elements of the composer's life interspersed with documentary vignettes.