Alexis Martin – MRQE

Nô

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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).

Bad Seeds (2016/III)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jacques is an actor who runs away to the countryside to escape his gambling debts. He meets Simon, a rough and wily farmer who manipulates him into a business relationship. After a difficult start, the men help each other grow marijuana. They happen to meet Francesca, a sharp young woman who soon embraces their venture. By the time they get to the winter harvest, the three have learned to live together, but outside forces threaten the delicate balance of their little business…

Il n’y a pas de faux métier

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Fiction bleeds into reality. Women declare themselves pregnant with the letter E! Denzel Washington plays himself in a popular sitcom. Chaos reigns and cops crave poetry. Mélusine Catafor abandons her identity in the city of Three-Rivers to seek a new one in Montreal where she hopes to learn English and where her best friend, Marie-Cobra Tremblay strives to birth an Odyssey. Rosaire, a melancholic pastor, organizes a major conference on Impossible Loves. Also, you’ll meet La Renarde who hides a hole-punch in her coat. You’ll learn the hole-punch is a formidable weapon used to pierce the ears of alley cats. As you can imagine, it’s a comedy.

Le Banquet

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A bloody drama and an apocalyptic vision of the universities, and more generally of Québec society.

Avant que mon coeur bascule

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sarah is part of a strange, marginal ménage à trois with her contemporary Louis and the older Ji-Guy, she fills her days with petty crime. During the day she hangs around with Louis by motorways, where she deceives and robs innocent people offering a lift. One day things go wrong: a driver dies during a robbery attempt. Sarah cant stop thinking about the dead man and goes looking for the wife he left behind. In her, she finally finds something of the security and friendship she had unconsciously been seeking for so long. But her alternative family doesnt just let her go.

Route 132

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption.

Babine

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The adventures of Babine, the son of a witch and a village pariah, as he ventures forth into the world and narrowly evades death.

L’audition

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Louis is “repo man” who is no stranger to strong-arm tactics in his work, but he has dreamed of becoming an actor since he was a child. When cousin helps him get an audition, he gets the help of a fam… read more ous actor to him secretly rehearse his scenes. He doesn’t even tell his girlfriend Suzie But, Suzie also has a secret. She’s pregnant and doesn’t want her child to grow up in an atmosphere of violence.

9 (2016/I)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

According to the text of Stéphane E.Roy Nine slices of life. Nine stories that intertwine. A satirical comedy. Marc Gauthier, creator of the new “Dare Communic-Action ©” alleged communication guru, offers a new approach. But there will always be a gap between theory and practice … Between nine earthy situations and absurd misunderstandings, everyone will try to grow up

Matroni et moi

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gilles meets Guylaine on a beach. He’s a bookish scholar with glasses; she’s a waitress in a blue-collar bar in a rough part of Montreal. Gilles comes for a visit… Guylaine’s brother Bob works for the brutal gangster Matroni. Two toughs have hijacked a tractor-trailer full of stolen car parts that Matroni was about to deliver to an even worse gangster, Boyd. Boyd is very dangerous and he wants those parts. Guylaine’s friend Linda knows the hijackers and has left their names with her mum in a letter. The thugs have gotten to Bob and beaten him up, so that means only one person can take the letter to Matroni at his autowrecking yard, polite and courteous Gilles…