Andrée Lachapelle – MRQE

Il pleuvait des oiseaux

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

A photographer sets off toward a mysterious forest to find Boychuk, witness and victim of the Great Fire that swept through Northern Ontario at the turn of the 20th century. But before she arrives, she learns that Boychuck has just perished. Survivors of the long-ago fire, Tom and Charlie, two elderly men who have chosen to live out their last days in the woods, are introduced to Marie Desneige, whose 60 year institutionalization has only fueled her passion for life. Meanwhile, the photographer is discovering that Boychuck had been a painter, whose lifes work had been entirely inspired by the Great Fire. The story immerses us in a historical drama while captivating us with the strange lives of these men of the forest. Three men who, in choosing freedom above all else, made a deal with death.

Le Météore

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Forty-something Pierre is serving a fourteen year prison sentence. His mother, who is approaching eighty, visits him every week. Suzanne, Pierre’s current wife, has moved on since he was sent away. Each character gives us a frank account of a period in their lives that seems suspended in time by the fragile connection between life on the inside and the world outside. Their destinies are linked by crime, guilt and loneliness, and like casualties of love and desire, they are dying to stick their heads above the water and breathe the air of life.

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.

La Belle empoisonneuse

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Du pic au coeur

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Cap Tourmente

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

Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional – not to say incestuous – family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn’t cut manage to march in his father’s footsteps in that job. His mother doesn’t seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he’s too wrapped up in what’s going on inside his head to notice.

Léolo

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

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.

Dans le ventre du dragon

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

The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don’t assume that it’s just another kung fu epic. Rather, the film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor’s contention that a person’s intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye proves her right…up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.

La Dernière fugue

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Christmas approaches and the Lévesque family has once again gathered for their traditional celebration. But this time there is a mixture of emotions running through each person. The patriarch of the family suffers from a combination of Parkinsons Disease and heart failure. His life reduced in every way, the end approaches and there are unhappy memories of his once violent and authoritarian past. But his wife, ten children and many grandchildren try to maintain a semblance of the Christmas season.

Don’t Let the Angels Fall

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.