Robert Lepage – 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).

Coriolanus

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

Staged at the Stratford Festival and named on many 2018 year-end critics best of lists, the Stratford Festivals riveting and exhilarating (The New York Times) production of Shakespeares Coriolanus, has been called the show of the decade a landmark production for the Stratford Festival. Maybe for William Shakespeare, too (The Globe and Mail), and the greatest contemporary staging of this play that I have ever seen (Chicago Tribune).

La Face cachée de la lune

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

After the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his brother.

Possible Worlds

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

The same man lives out several parallel lives in different “worlds” and in different relationships at the same time.

Le Polygraphe

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

In this French Canadian thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the true story of an unsolved crime. She discovers her neighbor was the lover of the woman who was murdered in real life — and is still a suspect.