Following an esteemed decade working in short films, the Halifax-based filmmaker Heather Young delivers Murmur, one of the most remarkable Canadian films of 2019. Marked by its fixed camera, the film is a profound exploration of loneliness, following the emotional affective codependence of Donna, a woman in her sixties, who searches to alleviate her solitude […]
A quietly colossal achievement from one of contemporary cinema’s preeminent image makers. On a stormy night in the mountains of Greece, a pair of wayward young people abandon their newborn child. Taken in by a family of farmers, Ion grows up without knowing his father or mother. Years later, after a tragic accident, he is […]
New 2K Restoration Once only ordinary drama came between Lap (Joey Wong) and Rick (Kenny Bee). The lovers worked together at Lap’s father’s bar, where business was slow but enough. Then her father Cheung and Rick are coerced into one last job with the Triad that goes terribly wrong. Her father now a target wanted […]
After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this at times strange and hostile environment. But with Raymond’s help and his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to […]
In the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of Rohmer’s “Moral Tales” series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis, one of the great conflicted figures of sixties cinema. A pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, he lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world, drowning himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Pascal. After spotting […]
*As part of the Post-Moderne Ciné-club – choice of Pascal Plante August 5: Introduction & discussion with the filmmaker Pascal Plante, the producer Dominique Dussault and the swimmer and actress Ariane Mainville *LAST SCREENING* While young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games to escape a rigid […]
The brilliant and controversial Naked, from director Mike Leigh, stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself around London on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his […]
BAINS DE MINUIT – Selected by Ariane Roy-Poirier (executive director, Pleins Écrans festival) Mae, a fascinating young girl, has an unusual beauty. Caleb meets her on a summer night and tries to seduce her. But she seems scared by the coming dawn and refuses to give in to him. He agrees to take her to […]
New 4K Restoration In early September three young Parisians – Caroline (Caroline Cartier), her cousin Kareen (Françoise Guégan), and Joëlle (Danièle Croisy) – travel to the sparsely populated oceanside town of Orouët for a carefree holiday. At Caroline’s mother’s house they soon take in Gilbert (Bernard Ménez), Joëlle’s boss, and romantic complications inevitably ensue: ever […]
Howard Beale, a veteran newscaster, is informed by his ratings-driven network executives that he is about to be dumped because he “skews old” – in turn, he uses his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final programme. An ambitious programming executive convinces her superiors to let the broadcast […]