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A Happy Man (2009 Film)
''A Happy Man'' (french: Le Bonheur de Pierre) is a 2009 Canadian-French comedy-drama directed by Robert Ménard. It was entered into several film festivals including the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Moreover, it was chosen Best Foreign Film at the New York Independent Film Festival in 2009. The film is also known as A Happy Man. Plot French professor Pierre Martin is a widower who lives with his single daughter Catherine. When his aunt Jeanne dies she bequeathers him her guest house in Canada on condition he lives there for a minimum of time. He loves to comply because he has fond childhood memories of this place. In order to make his daughter Catherine accompany him he tells her a great deal of money was also part of Jeanne's heritage. So both of them hurry to the rural little town Sainte Simone du Nord in Canada. The mayor Michel Dolbec knows Jeanne's house will become property of their community if the two Martins don't hold out long enough. He sabotages them se ...
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Robert Ménard (director)
Robert Ménard is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is most noted for his 1982 film ''A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi)'', for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Director, Best Director at the 4th Genie Awards in 1983. His other films have included ''Exit (1986 film), Exit'',Matthew Fraser (journalist), Matthew Fraser, "Impressive cast can't save Exit". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 10, 1986. ''Cruising Bar'', ''You're Beautiful, Jeanne (T'es belle Jeanne)'', ''Love Crazy (1991 film), Love Crazy (Amoureux fou)'', ''Water Child (L'enfant d'eau)'', ''Cruising Bar 2'', ''A Happy Man (2009 film), A Happy Man (Le Bonheur de Pierre)'' and ''Stay with Me (2010 film), Stay with Me (Reste avec moi)''.Brendan Kelly, "Interconnected vignettes ebb and flow". ''Montreal Gazette'', November 5, 2010. He was married to Claire Wojas, his screenwriting collaborator on nearly all of his films, until her death in 2018. References External links< ...
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Patrick Drolet
Patrick Drolet is a Canadian film and television actor. His credits include the films ''Father and Guns (De père en flic)'', ''The Child Prodigy (L'Enfant prodige)'', ''All That You Possess (Tout ce que tu possèdes)'', '' Honey, I'm in Love (Le Grand départ)'', ''The Genius of Crime (Le Génie du crime)'' and ''The Novena (La neuvaine)'', and the television series ''Les Invincibles'', ''Mémoires vives'', '' Les Bougon: C'est aussi ça la vie'', ''Trauma'' and '' Happily Married (C'est comme ça que je t'aime)''. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2010 Genie Awards for his performance in ''De père en flic'', and for Best Actor at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards for his performance in ''Tout ce que tu possèdes''."'Rebelle' a ...
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French-language Canadian Films
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' (OI ...
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French Comedy-drama Films
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French ...
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Canadian Comedy-drama Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-i ...
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Films Directed By Robert Ménard
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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2009 Films
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards). Evaluation of the year Film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' said that 2009 "began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: ''The Reader'', '' Che'', ''Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Frost/Nixon'', '' Revolutionary Road'', ''The Wrestler'', ''Gran Torino'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''. It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being '' New Moon'', the latest in Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' saga, the best the ...
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NTSC
The first American standard for analog television broadcast was developed by National Television System Committee (NTSC)National Television System Committee (1951–1953), Report and Reports of Panel No. 11, 11-A, 12–19, with Some supplementary references cited in the Reports, and the Petition for adoption of transmission standards for color television before the Federal Communications Commission, n.p., 1953], 17 v. illus., diagrs., tables. 28 cm. LC Control No.:5402138Library of Congress Online Catalog/ref> in 1941. In 1961, it was assigned the designation CCIR System M, System M. In 1953, a second NTSC standard was adopted, which allowed for color television broadcast compatible with the existing stock of black-and-white receivers. It is one of three major color formats for analog television, the others being PAL and SECAM. NTSC color is usually associated with the System M. The only other broadcast television system to use NTSC color was the System J. Since the introdu ...
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IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ...
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Narrativity
Narrativity is the extent to which a media tells a story, which is a storyteller's account of an event or a sequence of events leading to a transition from an initial state to a later state or outcome. There are four theoretical foundations of narrativity, represented by the notions of # narrative content, # narrative discourse, # narrative transportation, and # narrative persuasion. Narrative content and discourse are the linguistic antecedents of narrativity. Narrative content reflects the linear sequence of events as characters live through them—that is, the backbone and structure describing who did what, where, when, and why. Narrative discourse represents how the story is told—that is, storytellers' use of literary devices to expand on the narrative content, such as emotional change over the course of the story line and sequencing of events to create drama. Narrative transportation is the engrossing, transformational experience of being swept away by a story. Narrative pe ...
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Vincent Bilodeau
Vincent Bilodeau (born August 11, 1951) is a French Canadian actor and comedian from Quebec. Career Vincent Bilodeau appeared in many feature films including ''A Sunday in Kigali'' in 2006. Private life He is the brother of Yvon Bilodeau and the uncle of Guillaume Bilodeau. Filmography *1974: ''La Petite Patrie'' (TV series): ''Clément Germain'' *1985: ''Manon'' (TV series): ''Dr. Stéphane Joly'' *1991: '' Lance et compte: Tous pour un'' (TV): ''Jean-Marie Monette'' *1992: ''Dominique'' (TV series): ''Pierre-Luc'' *1993: '' Au nom du père et du fils'' (TV series): ''Honoré Villeneuve'' *1999: ''Radio'' (TV series) *2001: ''Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)'': ''Gallery director'' *2002: ''Chaos and Desire (La Turbulence des fluides)'': ''Simon Deslandes'' *2002: ''The Negro (Le nèg')'': ''Garry Racine'' *2003: ''L'Auberge du chien noir'' (TV series): ''Richard St-Maurice'' *2003: '' 20h17 rue Darling'': ''Lt. Geoffrion'' *2003: ''Gaz Bar Blues'': ''Mononc' Boivin'' ...
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Diane Lavallée
Diane may refer to: People *Diane (given name) Film * ''Diane'' (1929 film), a German silent film * ''Diane'' (1956 film), a historical drama film starring Lana Turner * ''Diane'' (2017 film), a mystery film directed by Michael Mongillo * ''Diane'' (2018 film), a drama film starring Mary Kay Place Music * ''Diane'' (album), by Chet Baker and Paul Bley, 1985 * "Diane" (Cam song), 2017 * "Diane" (Erno Rapee and Lew Pollack song), a 1927 composition covered by many, including a 1964 UK #1 by The Bachelors * "Diane" (Hüsker Dü song), 1983 * "Diane", a song by Guster from '' Keep It Together'' * "Diane", a song by Don Patterson with Sonny Stitt and Billy James from ''The Boss Men'' Other uses * Diana (mythology), a name of the deity Artemis * The Dianne, a high-rise residential building in Portland, Oregon, US * Ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate, a birth control pill sold under the brand names Diane and Diane-35 * Group Diane, a former special forces unit of the Belgian g ...
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