Luc Picard – MRQE

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…

French Girl

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

Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and hes fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City. To Gordons dismay her future boss also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity Chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Good luck Gordon.

La Disparition des lucioles

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

The sleepy town where Léo lives doesnt offer her much chance of self-fulfilment. Extricating herself from her mothers influence and her constricting environment isnt easy for the frustrated young woman, yet happiness might be close at hand. A stylistically precise, pop-impressionistic film about a girls quest to find out who she really is, featuring the captivating Karelle Tremblay in the lead role.

Mobile Etoile

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

La Maison du pêcheur

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

In the summer of 1969, Bernard, a Gaspesian fisherman’s son, arrive in Perce to fin work. He meets Paul, Jacques and Francis, Quebec Independence activists who have come to open the ‘Fisherman’s House’. They aim to organize public conferences and offer lodgings to young travelers. A motley crowd of Quebecers from all over the province soon flocks to Perce: artists, hippies, rockers, hitchhikers and the like shake local authorities. Bernard is won over by the trio’s ideas and gets increasingly involved in their project. The following year, the will join the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ) and play a pivotal role in the Summer Crisis 1969.

Marécages

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

On a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships, in the middle of a drought and while the land is parching, a drama will disrupt the life of the Santerre family. Confronted to each other they will have to learn to forgive.

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.

Un dimanche à Kigali

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

In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who is younger than him, in a period of violent racial conflicts. When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada. When the genocide finishes in July 1994, Bernard returns to the chaotic Kigali seeking out Gentille in the middle of destruction and dead bodies.

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.

20h17 rue Darling

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