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DAY 8
Tuesday 21 May 2019

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Director Émile Gaudreault (behind two of the
biggest local box offi ce comedy hits, De Père en
Flic 1 et 2) and popular comedian Louis-José
Houde are teaming up again for this new
comedy that has a good chance to make a hit
at the box offi ce next summer. Louis-José
Houde plays Simon, a young man who has the
TOP 10 annoying mania, to lie faster than anything —
not to mention obsessive compulsive
behaviour. To his surprise, his family, his friends
QUÉBEC FILMS BY and his colleagues send him a collective
ADMISSIONS IN 2018 ultimatum: he must learn to tell the truth. But
Simon lives in denial and ends up telling one lie
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1 all the falsities he has told in his life become
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reality. Disasters follow one another to his
1991 dismay, and with the help of his twin brother
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La Chute de l’Empire understand how to get out of this nightmare.
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Américain This is an Cinemaginaire production.
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IL PLEUVAIT DES OISEAUX
La Course des Tuques
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section. Chokri is an acclaimed actress and has appeared 151,806 (AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN)
in some of Dolan’s films, including Heartbeats and Laurence La Femme Hochelaga, Terre des Hommes Produced by Les Films Outsiders, And the Birds
de Mon Frère,
Anyways. The Québec film industry includes Elia by Monia 5 80,289 Rained Down, is the latest feature directed by
Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven, shown in Official Selection, Chokri Louise Archambault. Her last outing was
produced by Rectangle Productions and Nazira Films 6 Nelly et Simon Mission Yeti Gabrielle which won Locarno’s Audience Award,
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(France), Possibles Média (Québec), Pallas Film (Germany) and Best Screenplay at the Canadian Screen
and Zeyno Film (Turkey). Finally, A Colony by Geneviève 7 La Disparition des Lucioles Awards. This adaptation of a novel by Jocelyne
Dulude-De Celles (Colonelle films) is part of Cannes 36,039 Saucier (XYZ Editions) is a “story of crossed
Écrans Juniors. La Chute de Sparte destinies where love has no age”. The cast
8 includes great actors from the Belle Province:
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CANADIAN ACCOLADES Pour Vivre Ici Andrée Lachapelle, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy
Girard, Eve Landry, Éric Robidoux and Louise
The local Oscars; the Canadian Screen Awards, where 9 19,592 Portal. The movie will be distributed by MK2 |
handed over on April 1 and they have also awarded Mile End in Canada.
Québec well, like last year. Dulude-De Celles’ A Colony 10 Chien de Garde
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won the trophy for Best Canadian Film of the Year. 14 JOURS, 12 NUITS
Québec was certain not lo leave the ceremony empty- (14 DAYS, 12 NIGHTS)
handed. For the first time, the five best film nominees were adulthood and La Chute de l’Empire Américain is a witty
Québec productions, including A Colony: Maxime political satire by Québec movie master Denys Arcand. Anne Dorval, one of Xavier Dolan’s favourite
Giroux’s allegorical drama The Great Darkened Days, was Québec-made features once again dominated the actresses, is headlining this drama produced by
about a draft dodger from Québec who takes refuge in the Canadian box office in 2018, while a trio of English- Attraction Images and helmed by Jean-Philippe
American West. Daniel Roby’s disaster thriller Just a Breath language films cracked their way into the national top-10 Duval (Dede Through the Mist, Unit 9) which
was largely shot in Vietnam last winter. Written
Away followed a couple trying to save their daughter from for the year. by screenwriter Marie Vien (The Passion of
a toxic gas cloud in Paris. Also in the running for best On the English-language front, Indian Horse (C$1.69m) Augustine), 14 Days,12 Nights follows the
picture were post-apocalyptic sci-fi film Genesis directed hit number five on the chart, while Little Italy (C$1.4m) course of an oceanographer who lost his
by Freddie Hutton-Mills and Bart Ruspoli and Sophie was at number six and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch 17-year-old Vietnamese daughter in an accident
Dupuis’ Montreal crime story Family First. A Colony also broke the C$400,000 mark and earned the ninth position. in the Bas-Saint-Laurent. A year after this tragic
received the Best First Film Award and Emilie Pierre was But as a whole, Québec cinema attendance is slowing event, she decides to go on a pilgrimage to
crowned best actress for the same film. down. The numbers of spectators declined by 1% in 2018, Vietnam to try to understand where her
The trophy of the best male act in a leading role went to like the total BO gross. And the situation of many local daughter was coming from.
him Theodore Pellerin for Family First. The actor won the distributors is fragile, to say the least. Especially the ones
Iris Award for the revelation of the year at the Québec specialised in art house. MAFIA INC.
Cinema Gala for the same role. The 1991 film, by Ricardo Podz, a fi lmmaker and master of thrills and
Trogi, won him the Golden Screen Award for feature film MY SALINGER YEAR BEGINS suspense (7 Days and TV series 19-2) immerses
with the best box office receipts across the country. This Despite these uncertainties, Québec talents, especially film himself in the world of gangster fi lms with this
film was also the one that got the best BO in Québec. directors and producers are in much demand. An example highly anticipated fi lm adaptation of the book
This very strong Québec presence at the Cannes Film is the upcoming cinema adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s Mafi a Inc., which chronicles the reign of the
Festival and the excellent critical reception still reserved international bestseller My Salinger Year. Oscar-nominated Sicilian mafi a in Montreal. Six years after
for local productions is also to be compared with a still Canadian director Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) directing him in the legal drama L’Affaire
strong box office performance of the Belle Province cinema will start filming imminently on this project between Dumont, the director has entrusted one of the
in its home turf. Montreal and New-York, with Sigourney Weaver and main roles of the fi lm to Marc-André Grondin,
After an exceptional year at the box office in 2017 thanks Margaret Qualley. One of Québec’s most respected and who will play the son of a Québec tailor who
to the success of comedies De Père en Flic 2 and Bon Cop, successful companies, Luc Déry and Kim McCraw’s works on behalf of the godfather of the Sicilian
Bad Cop 2, Québec cinema continued its momentum in micro_scope (Incendies, Monsieur Lazhar and Felix & mafi a in Montreal. Gilbert Sicotte, Mylène
2018, when no less than three films passed C$2m in box Meira) is behind this project while Memento Films Mackay and Italian actor Sergio Castellitto also
office revenue in the province. In a wide range of genres International is handling international sales and is star. The fi lm is a co-production between
Attraction Images and Caramel Films.
— La Bolduc was a biopic one the first Québec singing co-representing the US rights with UTA Independent Film
stars in the 1930s, 1991 is the last chapter of a comedy Group. And pre-sales are already adding up. Maybe next
franchise based on the director’s funny journey to year in Cannes? ✦

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