Marie Brassard

Marie Brassard

Рождение : 1959-08-11, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada

История

Marie Brassard is a Canadian actress, theatrical writer and director. She is known for her work with playwright and actor Robert Lepage and later for her own French and English theatrical pieces, which have been presented in many countries in the Americas, Europe and in Australia.

Профиль

Marie Brassard

Фильмы

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Victorine
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.
Mistral Spatial
Pieuvre
The evening of his break-up with Cath, Sam is victim of an inexplicable phenomenon where he loses consciousness for few hours later. Could his heartbreak be related to the hypothesis of an alien abduction?
Promenades nocturnes
After the death of her husband, Ethel retreats inward, doubting her loved ones, trying to make sense of the fabric of her reality. She has also begun wandering at night, each walk a more surreal and abstract adventure.
Viking
Christiane Comte
Five men and women form a B-team on Earth to remotely deal with the interpersonal problems of the five astronauts who will soon land on the planet Mars.
Двадцатый век
Asbestos Miner
Торонто, 1899 год. Тщеславный молодой политик Маккензи Кинг мечтает стать премьер-министром Канады. В стремлении к власти ему суждено будет столкнуться со своей деспотичной матерью, генерал-губернатором, ведущим войну, и утопическим идеализмом распространенных в Квебеке мистических воззрений. Кроме того, Кинг пытается разобраться в любовных отношениях между британским солдатом и франко-канадской медсестрой. Когда его погоня за лидерством заканчивается эпической битвой между добром и злом, герой начинает понимать, что разочарование может быть единственным способом выжить в двадцатом веке.
Девушка моего брата
Lise Poitras
35-летняя Софии вынуждена жить со своим братом Каримом. Их добрые отношения оказываются на грани, когда Карим впервые в жизни по уши влюбляется. Чувствуя себя преданной, София задумывается о смысле своей жизни.
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Shambles
Caught stealing drugs from the wrong people, 27 year old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob. Fleeing to the backwoods, Vincent unexpectedly reconnects with his brother Michel with whom he’d cut ties many years ago. As he tries to maintain the semblance of a normal life hanging out with friends and playing in his band, Vincent witnesses his brother's own turbulent downward spiral.
La chute
Mother
Запретная комната
Mysterious Necklace Woman
Таинственный дровосек появляется на борту подводной лодки, которая несколько месяцев находится под водой в ловушке из-за нестабильного груза. Это событие заставляет команду обреченного судна встретиться с своими самыми потаенными страхами.
Le Cœur de Madame Sabali
Jeannette
The film is centered on the strange, beautiful and emotional story of Jeannette Sabali. When her boyfriend Bruno stops making love with her, Jeannette begins an affair with a young co-worker (Francis LaHaye). Alas, it turns out that her heart problems are physical as well as metaphorical. When Jeannette inherits the heart of a deceased Malian woman, she’s befriended by her donor’s teenaged son (Youssef Camara), who’s convinced that she’s the reincarnation of his late mother. It turns out that he might just be on to something.
The Embargo Project
Roberta
Five Indigenous women filmmakers from across Canada challenge one another to make a film under a set of restrictions tailored to each filmmaker.
Roberta
Roberta
Housewife and grandmother Roberta struggles to fit the conformist society she lives in and turns to amphetamines to cure her boredom.
Corbo
Mignonne Corbo
A teenage Quebecer in the 1960s evolves from pro-independence activist to radical terrorist, in this gripping chronicle of the origins of the FLQ in the decade preceding the 1970 October Crisis.
Вик и Фло увидели медведя
Marina St-Jean / Jackie
Одинокая автобусная остановка. Скаут играющий на трубе и женщина, которая не желает платить ему ни гроша за его скудный музыкальный талант. Эту женщину зовут Вик, она только что вышла из тюрьмы и желает лишь немного тишины и покоя. Она отправляется к своему родственнику, который живет в доме в канадском лесу. Там ее навещает подруга по имени Фло. И вроде их жизнь начинает налаживаться, но не все так просто…
Ésimésac
Babine
With the villagers of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton barely having enough food to survive, Ésimésac convinces them to collaborate on a community garden. Each person will multiply his or her yield by cultivating the land together. At the same time, talk of a new railway line promises to connect Saint-Élie-de-Caxton to the rest of the world and brings the hope of abundance. Riopel, the hulking blacksmith, starts working on the railway track and convinces the locals to invest in his project rather than waste their time playing in the garden. Ésimésac’s big project flounders under the weight of metal. But can he really stop progress?
Twice a Woman
Nurse
The story of Catherine, who, after her violent husband puts her life in serious danger one night, decides to run away with her son and start a new life under a fresh identity.
Знаки смерти
Céline Girandau
Молодая канадка хочет выяснить, в чём по-настоящему нуждаются люди в последние месяцы их жизни. Сдержанно, без лишней сентиментальности фильм рассказывает о самых важных вещах и о странной близости, возникающей между умирающими и теми, кто за ними ухаживает.
Heat Wave
Marjo
After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress her feelings, but the attraction she has for this 19 year old boy is beyond comprehension. Her sister, her boss and two children will each turn, disrupt her secret meetings with her young lover.
Cadavres
Paulette
Raymond is a jealous, misanthropic, couch potato. Angèle is a sexy TV star, childish and disillusioned. One Halloween, their mother, Solange, suddenly dies. Raymond calls his sister for the first time in 10 years. She agrees to meet him and begins to investigate their mother's death, all in keeping with her TV role of police commissioner. But nothing is simple with the Marchildons. Between a dithering Raymond, the ghost of Solange who continues to haunt her children, and Angèle who's going crazy interviewing suspects, one more bizarre than the next, and the bodies that are filling up the basement, it's hard to keep their love straight. But then, love was always a little twisted in the Marchildon household.
Удивительная история
Madame Gélinas
У главного героя непростая судьба, ведь его мать - ведьма, поэтому жить в родной деревушке ему совсем не просто... Как спастись от неминуемой гибели, если ты изгой и у тебя совсем нет друзей? Это правдивая история о людях, о взаимоотношениях с жизнью и смертью и приключениях, которых в жизни главного героя хватает сполна
Continental, a Film Without Guns
Diane
The mysterious disappearance of a man affects the lives of four different people, all living in loneliness in the suburbs of Quebec: the wife of the missing person, an aging ex-gambler, a young receptionist who want to share her life with somebody, and a father looking to help his family.
Congorama
Madeleine Longsdale
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.
Pig's Law
Carole Massé
After inheriting a pig farm from their father, sisters Stephane and Betty do their best to keep the family business running. But while the very pregnant Betty is diligent about doing the work that needs to be done, Stephane can focus only on her crippling gambling problem, which has landed her in deep trouble with her creditors. Desperate for cash, she considers a dangerous option for repaying the debt … but will it work?
Nô
Hanako
Robert Lepage directed this Canadian comedy, filmed in black and white and color and adapted from Lepage's play The Seven Branches of the River Ota. In October 1970, Montreal actress Sophie (Anne-Marie Cadieux) appears in a Feydeau farce at the Osaka World's Fair. Back in Montreal, her boyfriend Michel (Alexis Martin) watches the October Crisis on TV and sees Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau declare the War Measures Act. The Canadian Army patrols Montreal streets. Sophie learns she's pregnant and phones Michel. However, Michel is immersed in politics, while Sophie rejects the amorous advances of her co-star (Eric Bernier), becomes friendly with a blind translator, and passes an evening with frivolous Canadian embassy official Walter (Richard Frechette) and his wife Patricia (Marie Gignac). Meanwhile, in Montreal, Michael plots terrorist activities. Commenting on East-West cultural distinctions, the film intercuts between Quebec (in black and white) and Japan (in color).
Le Polygraphe
Writer
In this French Canadian thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the true story of an unsolved crime. She discovers her neighbor was the lover of the woman who was murdered in real life -- and is still a suspect.
Le Polygraphe
Lucie Champagne
In this French Canadian thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the true story of an unsolved crime. She discovers her neighbor was the lover of the woman who was murdered in real life -- and is still a suspect.
Where I am
mère
During a brutal Quebec winter, a teenage girl mourns her best friend killed in a car accident.