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7 DAYS (GROU)
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In this French Canadian revenge thriller, the daughter of a respectable surgeon is raped and murdered. When the police finally track down the perpetrator, the vengeful father swoops in, kidnaps the creep, and tortures him for aboot seven days. "While it's a remarkably harsh and brutal film, it's also very smart, very engrossing, and very insightful...doles out some sequences of torture that make Saw look like kid's stuff" (FearNET). Starring Remy Girard. In French with English subtitles.
Daniel Grou---Canada---2010---115 mins.
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AMNESIA (LANGLOIS)
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Inspired by a true story, this French Canadian film from writer-director Denis Langlois (Danny in the Sky) begins when a young man (Dusan Dukic) is beaten, stripped, and left for dead in Montreal. When he awakes, he is taken in by police, handed over to a psychiatric ward, and diagnosed with amnesia. There, he is able to piece together two details of his mysterious life--his name is James Brighton, and he is gay. In French and English with English Denis Langlois---Canada---2005---90 mins.
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ANTLERS/ PANACHE
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A sensitive documentary about the big game hunters of the forests of Northern Quebec. Filmmaker Andre-Line Beauparlant travels with six hunters on long nights in the woods, capturing footage that will be combined with candid interviews, touching on death, religion, and political correctness. Retitled Antlers for DVD release. In French with English subtitles. Andre-Line Beauparlant---Canada---2007---90 mins.
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APPRENTICE, THE
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One of Susan Sarandon's first roles was in this sexy French Canadian film about a bank robbery and playful love affairs. The question is, who's the teacher and who's the apprentice in these matters? The Apprentice certainly has novelty value, what with Sarandon's full-frontal nudity and all, but the film's message about Quebecois culture clashing with the rest of Canada is also worth noting. With Steve Fiset. In French and English with Larry Kent---Canada---1971---81 mins.
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BATTLE OF THE BRAVE
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As England and France battle over control of Canada during the mid-18th century, an epic romance is brewing between a peasant girl and a trapper. Their passions intensify with each battle, but the fate of their love is inexorably tied to the war and France's retreat. Standout cast includes Noemie Godin-Vigneau, David La Haye, Gerard Depardieu, Irene Jacob, and Tim Roth. Also known as Nouvell-France. In English and French with English Jean Beaudin---Canada/France/Great Britain---2004---143 mins.
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C.R.A.Z.Y./ CRAZY
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A lively coming-of-age story about a warm religious family with a patriarch, Gervais, who fears his youngest son, Zachary, might be heading into gay waters. Sexually confused as a youngster and socially confused as a teenager, the two eventually learn to love one another. Plenty of laughs and a great 1970s period soundtrack help ease the familial tensions throughout. "Patrice Bricault-Vermette's art direction is stand-out perfect" (Variety). Starring Michel Cote, Marc-Andre Grondin, Daniella Proulx, and Emile Vallee. In French with English subtitles. Jean-Marc Vallee---Canada---2005---129 mins.
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CONGORAMA
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Canadian director Philippe Falardeau toys with coincidence, contrivance, and near-mystical encounters in this comic drama with as many twists of fate as there are twists of plot. When Michel (Olivier Gourmet), a failed Belgian inventor, discovers he was adopted, he sets off to find his birth parents in Canada. There he encounters Louis (Paul Ahmarani), a kindred spirit who has much in common with Michel. "...dramatic, ingenious, sensitive..." (Michel Coulombe, Radio-Canada). With Jean-Pierre Cassel and Gabriel Arcand. In French with English subtitles. Philippe Falardeau---Canada/Belgium/France---2006---105 mins.
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DANNY IN THE SKY
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Danny is a young man looking to make it big as a model. The son of a gay dad and a fashion model mother who died young, Danny tries everything to enter the glamorous life and find his true identity, including becoming a stripper at a gay nightclub and a porno star. Eventually, Danny's fast life catches up with him. In French with English subtitles. Denis Langlois---Canada---2001---88 mins.
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DANY LAFERRIERE: FILMS FROM A POET'S IMAGINATION
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The mystery and wonder of modern-day Haiti come alive in this two-film set based on the work of writer-director Dany Laferriere.
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FAMILIA
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Michelle is a divorced aerobics instructor and gambling addict. When she's fired from her job, she and her daughter Marguerite move in with her childhood friend Janine, who seemingly has it all together in a middle-class suburban neighborhood. When Janine's daughter Gabrielle becomes friends with Marguerite, it leads to a series of crises for both moms in this provocative award-winning Canadian drama. In French with English subtitles. Louise Archambault---Canada---2005---102 mins.
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HEARTBEATS (2010)
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This second feature from 20-year-old Quebecoise filmmaker Xavier Dolan (I Killed My Mother) takes lofty art-house influences like Truffaut and Godard and stuffs them into a self-reflexive love-triangle movie filled with hotness and heartache. Monia Chokri and her gay best friend (Dolan) are both in love with the same male coquette (Niels Schneider).
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I KILLED MY MOTHER
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In this impressive directorial debut from 20-year-old Quebecoise filmmaker Xavier Dolan, he stars in a very personal story about a self-centered 16-year-old who is struggling to come out to his distant single-mother (Anne Dorval). Symptomatic of their love-hate relationship, they have merciless verbal spats and tender reconciliations, all of which inches closer and closer to the homosexual elephant in the room. When it finally comes to a head, he is shipped away from his boyfriend (Francois Arnaud) to a boarding school. It's not because he's gay, but because he, like most teens, is terrible. The script rings true, but the art-school visual style is all over the map. That's probably why I Killed My Mother received three "Young Auteur to Watch" -type awards at Cannes. In French with English subtitles.
Xavier Dolan---Canada---2009---96 mins.
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INCENDIES (BLU-RAY & DVD)
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A bold French Canadian family drama/political thriller set in a fictional Arab country. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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LEOLO
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A French-Canadian coming-of-age film about a boy convinced he was fathered by a tomato. This strange premise sets the mood for a darkly comic fantasy/nightmare with mystical and sexual overtones. In French with English Jean-Claude Lauzon---Canada---1992---107 mins.
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MISSING VICTOR PELLERIN
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A French Canadian "documentary" on the disappearance of Victor Pellerin that keeps viewers guessing as to whether or not this supposed young painter/star of the Montreal art scene actually existed. Also known as Rechercher Victor Pellerin, this engrossing, witty, hard to categorize piece of verite trickery might not provide answers, but you'll find what actual collectors, critics, authorities, and artists think of Victor Pellerin: scammer, lover, thief, genius, and now missing. "Astonishing...a mind game of museum-worthy proportions" (Montreal Gazette). In French with English subtitles. Sophie Deraspe---Canada---2006---102 mins.
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MON ONCLE ANTOINE
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Director Claude Jutra's acclaimed, sensitive, breakthrough film about a young boy coming of age in a small Quebec mining village swept the Canadian film awards and, in 1984, it was selected as the best Canadian film of all time by a panel of film critics and historians. Young Benoit slowly becomes aware of the affinities between love, life and death as he works as a stock boy in his uncle Antoine's general store. Since Antoine serves as everything from notary to shopkeeper to undertaker, it is no wonder that Benoit learns about life quickly. Funny, sad and wise...essential viewing. In French with optional Claude Jutra---Canada---1971---104 mins.
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MONSIEUR LAZHAR
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Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, this French Canadian comedy from Philippe Falardeau (Congorama) tells the tragicomic story of a Montreal middle school class shocked by the suicide of their beloved teacher. With grief in the air and big shoes to fill, Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag), a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, is hired as a substitute. As he tries to pick up the pieces at a fragile time in the kids’ lives, Lazhar is also secretly dealing with a loss of his own. “Like no other film about middle school life that I can recall Monsieur Lazhar conveys the intensity and the fragility of these classroom bonds and the mutual trust they require” (Stephen Holden, New York Times). In French with English subtitles.
Philippe Falardeau---Canada---2011---94 mins.
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PAPER WEDDING
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This emotionally honest and fiercely intelligent Canadian drama is the movie that Green Card should have been. Genevieve Bujold gives one of her best performances as a disillusioned single woman who agrees to marry, in name only, a Chilean political refugee to prevent his deportation. Chilean born actor Manuel Arranguiz is perfectly cast as the grateful husband. The relationship takes an unexpected turn when Canadian immigration officials take an active interest in the case. Shot on location in Quebec. With Dorothe Berryman, Gilbert Sicotte, Jean Mathieu, Monique Lepage and Teo Spychalski as Bujold's married former lover Milosh. Michel Brault---Canada---1990---90 mins.
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POW! POW! NOEL
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In this intense French Canadian drama, the filmmaker stars alongside his real-life father. He enters a terminal care ward armed with a syringe and a camera on Christmas Eve, with intentions of giving his autistic father a disturbing gift. "Exceptionally powerful" (Montreal Mirror). Pow Pow Noel is also known as Petit Pow! Pow! Noel. In French with English Robert Morin---Canada---2005---90 mins.
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SEDUCING DR. LEWIS
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Jean-Francois Pouliot's directorial debut is a modest screwball comedy about a crumbling island community in Quebec that must convince an urbane doctor (David Boutin) to settle in their town so that they can get a much-needed factory (and subsequent economic boost). Bending over backwards to make their ragtag community seem quaint and authentic, the townspeople run the risk of being uncovered as charlatans. "There's shrewd wit to Pouliot's gentle, no-bull farce" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly). In French with Jean-Francois Pouliot---Canada---2002---108 mins.
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