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Christine Beaulieu
Christine Beaulieu is a Canadian actress and playwright from Quebec. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards, for her performance in ''The Mirage (Le Mirage)'', and was again a Prix Iris nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for '' Norbourg''. She won the Gémeaux Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2020 for her regular role as Josiane in ''Lâcher prise ''Lâcher prise'', also known in English as ''Freefall'' or ''Let Go'', is a Canadian television comedy series, which premiered in 2017 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pointe-du-Lac
Pointe-du-Lac is one of the six boroughs of the city of Trois-Rivières and a former municipality in Quebec, Canada on the St. Lawrence River. It was founded in 1738 and its current church dates from 1882. Another old building in the village is the Moulin Seigneurial, founded in 1721 and rescued in the 70s by resident Mariette Chenay. The municipality was amalgamated into the City of Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ... in 2002. Population (2001 census) 6,902. Populated places established in 1738 Populated places disestablished in 2002 Neighbourhoods in Trois-Rivières Former cities in Quebec 1738 establishments in the French colonial empire {{quebec-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ici Radio-Canada
ICI or Ici may refer to: Companies and organisations * ICI Homes, builder, Florida. US * Former UK Imperial Chemical Industries ** ICI Australia, later Orica * Independent Curators International, New York City, US * Indian Concrete Institute * Indian Citation Index *, Goutte d'Or district, Paris, France * Institute of Cultural Inquiry, US art sponsor * International Colonial Institute, Brussels, Belgium * International Compact with Iraq, 2007 Iraq-UN * Investment Company Institute The Investment Company Institute (ICI) is a global association of regulated funds, including mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds and unit investment trusts in the United States, and similar funds offered to investors in jurisd ..., US * A Woman's Place (bookstore), or Information Center Incorporate Media * ''Ici'' (magazine) (in French), Montreal, Canada * Ici Radio-Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation service from 2013 * ICI (TV channel) (International Channel/Canal Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laughter (2020 Film)
''Laughter'' (french: Le Rire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Martin Laroche and released in 2020. The film stars Léane Labrèche-Dor as Valérie, a woman who was the sole survivor of a massacre in her hometown several years earlier in the midst of a civil war; although she has successfully rebuilt her life with a job in a long-term care home and a new romantic relationship with Gabriel (Alexandre Landry), she still struggles with survivor's guilt until the arrival of Jeanne (Micheline Lanctôt), a new patient at the home, gives her a new perspective on life.André Duchesne"Le rire : de quoi pleurer" '' La Presse'', January 31, 2020. The film's cast also includes Sylvie Drapeau, Christine Beaulieu, Catherine Proulx-Lemay, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Évelyne Rompré and Évelyne de la Chenelière. The film premiered in theatres on January 31, 2020. On April 7, with virtually all film distribution in Canada suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the film was ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forgotten Flowers
''Forgotten Flowers'' (french: Les fleurs oubliées) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by André Forcier and released in 2019. The film stars Roy Dupuis as Albert Payette, an agronomist who has lived in seclusion making mead since becoming disillusioned with his former career, but whose life is turned upside down when the late Brother Marie-Victorin Kirouac (Yves Jacques) returns to earth to enlist his help in an environmental campaign to take down his former employer Transgenia over its line of toxic pesticides. The film also stars Juliette Gosselin as Lili de Rosbil and Christine Beaulieu as Mathilde Gauvreau, a journalist and lawyer who also become involved in the campaign, and Mylène Mackay as Mathilde's ancestor Marcelle, a fellow botanist with whom Marie-Victorin had an emotional, but not physical, romantic relationship with prior to his death. Other cast members include Émile Schneider, Donald Pilon, Dorothée Berryman and France Castel. The film had its theatrical p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss Me Like A Lover
''Kiss Me Like a Lover'' (french: Embrasse-moi comme tu m'aimes) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by André Forcier and released in 2016. Set in Montreal in the 1940s, the film stars Émile Schneider as Pierre Sauvageau, a young man who wants to register for the military in World War II but must stay home to care for his paraplegic twin sister Berthe (Juliette Gosselin) as their mother (Céline Bonnier) struggles with depression. With the intimacy of care awakening her dormant sexuality, Berthe attempts to seduce Pierre; although Pierre rejects the advance, the memory of the incident goes on to colour his subsequent relationship with Marguerite (Mylène Mackay), his best friend's girlfriend, and Berthe's relationship with Élio ( Tony Nardi), a university professor. The film's cast also includes Antoine Bertrand, Réal Bossé, Roy Dupuis, France Castel, Denys Arcand, Pascale Montpetit, Julien Poulin, Rémy Girard, Christine Beaulieu, Pier-Luc Funk, Geneviève Schmidt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stranger In A Cab
''Stranger in a Cab'' (french: Ceci n'est pas un polar, lit. "This is not a thriller") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Patrick Gazé and released in 2014.Caroline Rodgers"Ceci n'est pas un polar: une enquête amoureuse" '' La Presse'', October 26, 2014. The film stars Roy Dupuis as André Kosinski, a lonely taxi driver in Montreal who begins a passionate affair with Marianne (Christine Beaulieu) after she is a passenger in his cab, only to become concerned that she may have been involved in a crime.Brendan Kelly"Movie review: Ceci n'est pas un polar" ''Montreal Gazette'', October 30, 2014. Brendan Kelly of the ''Montreal Gazette'' reviewed the film positively, writing that "You could call writer-director Patrick Gazé’s debut feature a Québécois ''Taxi Driver'' but that would be misleading. Like the classic 1976 Martin Scorsese film, Gazé’s Ceci n’est pas un polar — which translates as This Is Not a Thriller — is a drama focusing on a troubled cabbie driving the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Blind (film)
''Small Blind'' (french: La mise à l'aveugle) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Simon Galiero and released in 2012. The film stars Micheline Bernard as Denise, a woman rebuilding her life after being divorced by her husband Michel (Julien Poulin) and pushed out of her job with the family company by her son Alex (Pierre-Luc Brillant). Moving into a new apartment, she is initiated into the world of poker by her new neighbours Éric (Marc Fournier), Paul (Louis Sincennes) and Julie (Christine Beaulieu). The film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in October 2012, before opening commercially in December. Bernard received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Actress at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013. |
Camion
''Camion'' is a 2012 Canadian drama film directed by Rafaël Ouellet. The film centres on a truck driver who is suffering from severe depression after a woman kills herself by crashing her car into his truck; although he was not at fault, the incident has left him suicidal, resulting in the mending of his strained relationships with his sons Sam () and Alain ( Stéphane Breton) after he reaches out to them for help. Cast * Julien Poulin as Germain * as Samuel * Maude Giguère as Manu * Jacob Tierney as Jacob * Stéphane Breton as Alain * as Rebecca * Cindy Sampson as Jade Release The film was first released at the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Crystal Globe, won the Award of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Director Award for Ouellet. Awards The film received eight Jutra Award nominations at the 15th Jutra Awards The 15th Prix Jutra ceremony was held on March 17, 2013 at the Salle Pierre-Mercure theatre in Montreal, Quebec, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspicions (film)
''Suspicions'' (french: Jaloux, ) is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Patrick Demers and released in 2010. The film stars Maxime Denommée and Sophie Cadieux as Thomas and Marianne, an unhappy couple who are spending time at a cottage in the country to sort out their relationship issues, whose plans are complicated by the intrusions of neighbour Jean (Benoît Gouin). The film, an expansion of his earlier short film ''Discharge (Décharge)'',Andrew McIntosh"Décharge (Discharge)" ''Canadian Film Encyclopedia''. was largely unscripted, with the actors allowed to improvise much of their own dialogue. The film premiered on July 9, 2010 at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. and had its Canadian premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received two Genie Award nominations, for Best Editing (Demers) and Best Original Score (Ramachandra Borcar), at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012.Linda Barnard"‘Café de Flore’, ‘A Dangerous Method’ lead Genie Awards rac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesrine (2008 Film)
''Mesrine'' is a two-part 2008 French biographical crime film on the life of French gangster Jacques Mesrine, directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Richet. The first part, ''Mesrine: Killer Instinct'', was based on Mesrine's autobiographical book ''L'instinct de mort'', while the second part, ''Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One'', detailed Mesrine's criminal career. The film has earned comparisons to the American film '' Scarface'', and Vincent Cassel earned rave reviews for his portrayal of Mesrine. Parts The film is divided into two parts, with various titles: #''Mesrine: L'instinct de mort'' ( French for "Mesrine: Instinct for Death"); known in English as ''Public Enemy Number One (Part One)'', ''Mesrine: Part 1 - Death Instinct'' and ''Mesrine: Killer Instinct'' #''Mesrine: L'ennemi public No 1'' ( French for "Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1"); known in English as ''Public Enemy Number One (Part Two)'', ''Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Daughter, My Angel
''My Daughter, My Angel'' (french: Ma fille mon ange) is a 2007 Canadian French language thriller film, directed by Alexis Durand-Brault and starring Michel Côté and Karine Vanasse. Plot Germain Dagenais, a former solicitor (Côté), discovers evidence from a crime scene which included a dead body, of a videotape that included pornography. He is interested in viewing porn during his private time and accidentally finds his own daughter Nathalie (Karine Vanasse) in a video announcing she will be in a future video. Panicked, Germain must find his daughter and save her before she meets the same fate. Awards * Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Laurence Leboeuf Laurence Charlotte Leboeuf (born December 13, 1985) is a Canadian actress. Biography Leboeuf was born on December 13, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec. She went to École Notre-Dame-de-Grâce for elementary and later on, she went to Villa Maria for hig ... - Nominee References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life With My Father
''Life with My Father'' (french: La Vie avec mon père) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sébastien Rose and released in 2005. The film stars Raymond Bouchard as François Agira, a successful novelist returning home to Quebec after spending several years living in France to announce that he is terminally ill, forcing his estranged sons Paul (Paul Ahmarani) and Patrick (David La Haye) to make peace with him and each other. The cast also includes Hélène Florent, Julie du Page, Pierre-Antoine Lasnier, Nicolas Canuel, Benoît McGinnis and Christine Beaulieu. The film premiered theatrically in March 2005. The film won the Audience Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. |