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Free Fall (2009 Film)
''Free Fall'' (french: Les Pieds dans le vide) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Mariloup Wolfe and released in 2009. The film centres on a love triangle between Charles (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge), the owner of a parachuting adventure company, Rafaël (Éric Bruneau), a daredevil who takes dangerous risks because of his frustration at having been rejected for his dream job as an airline pilot due to partial deafness in one ear, and Manu (Laurence Leboeuf), the woman who is torn between both men while simultaneously coping with her mother's diagnosis with terminal cancer, over a summer as they prepare for an annual BASE jump off a Montreal skyscraper. A secondary subplot also focuses on Ludovic (Adam Kosh), a newer acquaintance of the trio who is struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality.Brendan Kelly, "Skydivers plummet to earth". ''Montreal Gazette'', August 12, 2009. The cast also includes Monique Spaziani, Andrew Shaver, Vincent Bolduc and Martin Dubreuil. Brendan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariloup Wolfe
Mariloup Wolfe (born 3 January 1978) is a Canadian actress and film director. She went to F.A.C.E. School, an art school in Montreal. She holds a major in Film Production from Concordia University (2001) and a minor in Cultural Studies from McGill University (1999). Mariloup Wolfe became famous through her role as ''Marianne'' in the popular TV series Ramdam broadcast since 2001 on Télé-Québec. Personal life She was married to actor Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge. They have two sons Manoé and Miro Lemay-Thivierge. They announced their separation on 13 November 2015. Filmography Film roles * 2001 : '' The favorite game'', ''Shell look-alike'' * 2002 : '' Cul-de-sac'', ''Victoire'' * 2004 : '' C.R.A.Z.Y.'', ''Brigitte'' * 2004 : '' À part des autres'', ''Nellie'' * 2005 : '' De ma fenêtre, sans maison'', ''Sylvie'' * 2007 : '' Taking the Plunge (À vos marques... party!)'', ''Sandrine Meilleur'' * 2007 : '' Les rois du surf'' (animation), voice (lead) * 2009 : '' Taking the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Dubreuil
Martin Dubreuil (born May 26, 1972) is a Canadians, Canadian actor and musician from Quebec."Martin Dubreuil, le James Dean de Rosemont" ''La Presse (Canadian newspaper), La Presse'', May 28, 2011. He is most noted for his performance in the films ''10½'', for which he garnered a Genie Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor at the 31st Genie Awards, and ''Felix and Meira''. ''La Presse (Canadian newspaper), La Presse'', January 24, 2015. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Montreal
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec Films
The history of cinema in Quebec started on June 27, 1896 when the Frenchman Louis Minier inaugurated the first movie projection in North America in a Montreal theatre room. However, it would have to wait until the 1960s before a genuine Quebec cinema industry would emerge. Approximately 620 feature-length films have been produced, or partially produced by the Quebec film industry since 1943. Due to language and cultural differences between the predominantly francophone population of Quebec and the predominantly anglophone population of the rest of Canada, Quebec's film industry is commonly regarded as a distinct entity from its English Canadian counterpart. In addition to participating in Canada's national Genie Awards, the Quebec film industry also maintains its own awards ceremony, the Prix Iris (formerly known as Jutra). In addition, the popularity of homegrown French language films among Quebec audiences, as opposed to English Canadians' preference for Hollywood films, mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian LGBT-related Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. 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 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 immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Drama Films
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. 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 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 immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 LGBT-related Films
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Drama Films
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Journal De Québec
''Le Journal de Québec'' is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, 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 .... Printed in tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format, it has the highest circulation for a Quebec City newspaper, with its closest competitor being ''Le Soleil (Quebec), Le Soleil''. It was founded March 6, 1967, by Pierre Péladeau, founder of Quebecor. Like its sister paper, the much more widely-read ''Le Journal de Montréal'', it was established by Pierre Péladeau and is owned by Quebecor Média. A lockout of unionized employees (members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees) began in April 2007 and continued until July 2008. It was the longest-running lockout in the history of the Québec media until then. As an answer to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Spaziani
Monique Spaziani (born December 16, 1957 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress. She is a three-time Genie Award nominee for Best Actress, receiving nominations at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for ''Happy Memories (Les Beaux souvenirs)'', at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986 for '' The Alley Cat (Le Matou)'' and at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for ''The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)''. Her other credits have included the films ''The Tin Flute (Bonheur d'occasion)'', ''Map of the Human Heart'', '' Aurore'', ''I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)'', ''French Immersion'', '' Water Child (L'Enfant d'eau)'' and ''Laurence Anyways'', and the television series ''L'Amour avec un Grand A'', ''Million Dollar Babies'', ''Apparences'', '' Vertige'', ''Mensonges'' and ''La Faille'' (2019). Personal life She was the partner of director Francis Mankiewicz, whom she met while filming ''Happy Memories'', until his death in 1993. She was subsequently married to actor Emmanuel Bilodeau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
