Pierre Curzi – MRQE

La Ciudad de cartón

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

Against the voracious concrete and a ruthless developer, a poet stands tall, the last bulwark against oblivion, like a Gaul defying Caesar. He gathers voices from the past, revives memories, and weaves an ode to Ville Jacques-Cartier’s working-class heritage, a haven where hopes and struggles once echoed.

Se Fondre

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

Elderly inmates are dying mysteriously one after another in their prison cells.

Une révision

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

A professor of philosophy teaches lessons to his awakened students. One day, one of his students decides to put his lessons into practice, and she goes on a journey that shakes her deepest convictions.

The Fall of the American Empire

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

A shy and insecure delivery truck driver accidentally arrives on the scene of a major crime and happens to pick up two bags of cash and hides them in his truck. Though an interrogation of two tough police detectives isn’t enough, the guy, who has a doctor’s degree in philosophy which makes his mind mingle with remorse, must find a way to get rid of this dirty money. Only the help of a prostitute and a former biker who came out of jail might get him out of trouble, especially that a gang leader is very weary to get his cash back or kill whoever is responsible for this mess. However, even the two bumbling detectives are monitoring the case as well.

La Nouvelle vie de Paul Sneijder

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

Roméo et Juliette

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

Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because hes been chosen to preside over one of the most important trials of the past 10 years: the case of Réal Lamontagne, a notorious criminal accused of killing a child. Roméo, 17, is the son of the accused. Even though they come from diametrically opposed universes, Juliette and Roméo fall for each other.

Idole instantanée

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

Four talented women become finalists in a singing competition.

Chorus

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

A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.

Invasions barbares, Les

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

In this belated sequel to ‘The Decline of the American Empire’, 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estranged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.

C’était le 12 du 12 et Chili avait les blues

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

This French-Canadian drama takes place just after JFK’s assassination and provides insight into the psychological ramifications of that event with its portrayal of a love story between a confused teen and a travelling salesman in a Quebec railroad station. The date is Dec. 19, 1963 and train service has been delayed by a snow storm. Pierre-Paul is a door-to-door salesman. Chili is a despondent teenaged girl. When Pierre-Paul enters a washroom stall he is surprised to find a girl hunched over with a gun in her mouth. He runs to tell the stationmaster, but she has gone by the time they return. He tells the stationmaster that the girl was wearing a kilt. Unfortunately, the station is filled with other school girls dressed in the same outfit. Eventually Chili comes up to Pierre-Paul and a careful romance is initiated as she tells him over her troubled life.