André Forcier – MRQE

Ababouiné

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Set in the Faubourg à m’lasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.

Coteau Rouge

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

A working-class family fights a greedy developer for control of their neighborhood.

Je me souviens

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman seeks revenge over false accusations of murder.

états-Unis d’Albert, Les

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

Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.

La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge

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

In a style evocative of Fellini at his most surreal, this bizarre French Canadian fantasy follows the romance between a young filmmaker and a bearded lady from a local circus during the 1960s. The story begins in a contemporary theater where a projectionist describes, to movie director Rex Prince, the ghostly spirit that seems to be haunting his film. The story then races backward to the 1960s when a half-mad, idealistic Rex was busily making his first film, a Marxist tract depicting poverty in Montreal. Edouard Dore, a well-connected editor works with him and it is he who takes Rex to a carnival late one night to meet the performers in a freakshow. The first person Rex meets is Le Grand Zenon, a hulking one-eyed fellow with the amazing ability to use his eye to project movie images on a screen with neither a projector nor film.

Le Vent du Wyoming

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

Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte temptress

Une histoire inventée

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

In this tragicomedy, Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his loving mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up (and paid) by the same uncle. Some of them have seen every performance of this tragic play, and are understandably bored, so when the backstage romantic shenanigans of the actors result in absurd situations onstage, the audience is delighted. There are a huge number of romantic situations going on in this film at the same time. One of them involves Gaston a somewhat world-weary jazz musician, and Florence, a glamorous middle-aged woman who has been pining for him for years. Another involves to members of the musician’s jazz trio. Yet another involves the play’s Desdemona, Soledad, the girlfriend of the man playing Othello, who can’t keep his hands off his (female) dresser.

L’eau chaude, l’eau frette

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.