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Patrice Robitaille
Patrice Robitaille (born 1974) is a Canadian actor and screenwriter. He is most noted as cowriter with Jean-Philippe Pearson and Ricardo Trogi of the film ''Québec-Montréal'' (2002), for which they won the Jutra Award for Best Screenplay at the 5th Jutra Awards in 2003. He was also a Genie Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay at the 23rd Genie Awards for ''Québec-Montréal'', and a two-time Jutra Award nominee for Best Actor for ''Québec-Montréal'' and ''The Little Queen (La petite reine)''.Jessica Émond-Ferrat"Xavier Dolan domine les nominations aux Jutra" '' Métro'', January 26, 2015. Filmography Television * ''Watatatow'' (1990) * ''4 et demi...'' (1995) * ''Fortier'' (2001) * ''La vie, la vie'' (2001) * ''Rumeurs'' (2002) * ''Le plateau'' (2002) * ''Grande ourse'' (1 episode, 2004) * ''L'héritière de grande ourse'' (miniseries, 2005) * ''Les Bougon ''Les Bougon - c'est aussi ça la vie!'' is a Quebec sitcom broadcast by Radio-Canada from 2004 to 2006, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is the eleventhList of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, -largest city and the seventhList of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, -largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the List of towns in Quebec, second-largest city in the province after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. The Algonquian people had originally named the area , an Algonquin language, AlgonquinThe Algonquin language is a distinct language of the Algonquian languages, Algonquian language family, and is not a misspelling. word meaning "where the river narrows", because the Saint Lawrence River na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodging The Clock
''Dodging the Clock'' (french: Horloge biologique) is a Quebec film directed by Ricardo Trogi and released in 2005. Plot The story follows three men in their thirties trying to have their first kid. Critical reception In December 2005, it was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list of the year's best films."Topping the list: Canada's cinematic achievements". ''National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with ...'', December 14, 2005. References External links * 2005 films Canadian comedy films Films directed by Ricardo Trogi French-language Canadian films 2000s Canadian films {{2000s-Canada-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Revision
''A Revision'' (french: Une révision) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Catherine Therrien and released in 2021. The film stars Patrice Robitaille as Étienne Brasseur, a philosophy professor who undergoes a crisis of faith after interacting with Nacira Abdeli ( Nour Belkhiria), a Muslim student who debates and challenges his values. The film's cast also includes Rabah Aït Ouyahia, Pierre Curzi, Vincent Bellefleur, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Édith Cochrane, Isabelle Giroux, Michel Laperrière, Rose-Marie Perreault and Joe Rohayem. The film premiered at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival in August 2021, and had its Canadian premiere on November 2, 2021, as the opening film of the Cinemania film festival.T'Cha Dunlevy"Pandemic was a blessing in disguise for Cinemania Film Festival" ''Montreal Gazette The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Love Digs A Hole
''When Love Digs a Hole'' (french: Quand l'amour se creuse un trou) is a 2018 Quebec black comedy film written and directed by Canadian director Ara Ball being his debut long feature film. It was launched on 15 June 2018 on Canadian screen in both French and English. The scenario was written by Ball in 16 days while in Peru in the winter of 2017 and filmed it in locations mainly in Howick in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. Miron, the film's young character does share some superficial traits with Ball's younger days (including a hairdo) and Ball says the film is a tribute to his own grandmother Margaret Ball as he was so close to her. The film also has some reference points to Hal Ashby's film '' Harold and Maude'' that his grandmother introduced him to when Ball was just 12.Alex Rose"This new Montreal movie puts an unconventional spin on May/December romance" '' Cult MTL'', June 13, 2018. Plot Miron, a young delinquent man ( Robert Naylor) leads a party life in a 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Majeur
''Junior Majeur'' is a Canadian sports drama film, directed by Éric Tessier and released in 2017. A sequel to the 2012 film '' The Pee-Wee 3D: The Winter That Changed My Life (Les Pee-Wee 3d: L'hiver qui a changé ma vie)'', the film centres on Janeau Trudel ( Antoine Olivier Pilon) and Joey Boulet (Rémi Goulet), who are now playing for the Chicoutimi Saguenéens of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and hopeful of getting chosen in the NHL Entry Draft, while Julie ( Alice Morel-Michaud) has given up on hockey due to the reduced opportunities for female players at the higher levels of the sport, and is now a junior sports reporter with the local newspaper. The film's cast also includes Normand Daneau, Claude Legault, Patrice Robitaille, Madeleine Péloquin and Edith Cochrane. The film premiered at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival on October 28, 2017, before opening commercially on November 23. The film won the Public Prize at the 20th Quebec Cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father And Guns 2
''Father and Guns 2'' (french: De père en flic 2, italic=yes) is a Canadian comedy film originating from Quebec, directed by Émile Gaudreault and released in 2017."De père en flic 2: Michel Côté, Louis-José Houde have a family reunion" '''', July 13, 2017. A sequel to the 2009 film '' Father and Guns (De père en flic)'', the film reunites Michel Côté and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 3 L'il Pigs 2
''The 3 L'il Pigs 2'' (french: Les 3 p'tits cochons 2) is a Canadian French-language comedy film, directed by Jean-François Pouliot and released in 2016. A sequel to the 2007 film ''The 3 L'il Pigs'' (), the film revisits the brothers five years after the death of their mother, older and slightly wiser but still struggling with the demands of monogamy in their marriages. However, Claude Legault did not reprise the role of Mathieu, who was instead played in the sequel by Patrice Robitaille. Rémi (Paul Doucet) is dealing with both the fallout of cheating on his wife Dominique ( Sophie Prégent) with another woman on a business trip, and his unresolved bisexuality after experiencing a strong attraction to a young man who helps him after a fainting spell in the street. Christian (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge), whose girlfriend Hélène has left him, moves into Rémi and Dominique's house after Rémy leaves, but begins falling in love with Dominique. Mathieu (Robitaille) falls off the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thrill Of The Hills
''Thrill of the Hills'' (french: Frisson des collines) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 2011. Set in Quebec in the late 1960s, the film stars Antoine Olivier Pilon as Frisson, a young boy whose father Aurèle (Patrice Robitaille) is killed in a workplace accident, who responds to his grief by enlisting his father's friend Tom (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge) to take him to Woodstock so that he can see his musical idol, Jimi Hendrix, perform. The cast also includes Anick Lemay as Frisson's mother Lucille; Antoine Bertrand as Burger, the village idiot of their small town; and Evelyne Brochu as Hélène, Frisson's teacher at school on whom he is developing a crush as he enters puberty. The film entered production in late summer 2010, and the film had its theatrical premiere on April 15, 2011. Awards The film won a jury award at the Schlingel International Film Festival in 2011. It received four Prix Jutra nominations at the 14th Quebec Cinem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadavres
''Cadavres'' is a Canadian comedy thriller film, directed by Érik Canuel Érik Canuel (born 1961) is a film director and actor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Canuel, the son of actor Yvan Canuel, began his career in the mid-1980s making music videos for such artists as Paul Piché, Sass Jordan, Norman Iceberg, Vil ... and released in 2009. It is a film adaptation of the 1998 novel ''Cadavres'' by François Barcelo, a tragicomedy about the deadly feelings that unite a brother and sister who have nothing in common. Plot One Halloween, the alcoholic mother of good-for-nothing Raymond suddenly dies, and he throws her body in a ditch. Repenting, he calls his sister Angèle, an actress who he has not seen for ten years, to help find the corpse. But the corpse they bring back in the ruined family home is not that of their mother. The brother and the sister start a sinister adventure involving two gangsters in dire straits, two chilling dealers, a dishonest artist agent, a terrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sticky Fingers (2009 Film)
''Sticky Fingers'' (french: Les Doigts croches) is a 2009 Canadian film written and directed by Ken Scott. Plot Set in 1964, Donald Quintal (Patrice Robitaille) meets Father Padre Carmet (Jorge Sabate) at a missionary but is told by Carmet that he cannot be given the money. Donald begins his story that he was a part of ''The Panet Street Gang'' that was made up of six Montreal gangsters, and that four years ago, while they were in prison, they planned a bank heist. When the heist went awry, they all voted to give Jimmy the $2 million from the heist, seeing as he had devoted his life to God, on the condition of promising to share it when they all met again. Jimmy hid under the floor while the other five were taken away. When the five were released from prison, they met at a parish chapel near the Franco-Spanish border. Donald explained to the group that he had received a letter from Jimmy that they were to walk 830 km of the Camino pilgrimage to Santiago to get their share of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A No-Hit No-Run Summer
''A No-Hit No-Run Summer'' (french: Un été sans point ni coup sûr) is a Canadian sports drama film, directed by Francis Leclerc and released in 2008.Charles-Henri Raymond"Un été sans point ni coup sûr – Film de Francis Leclerc" ''Films du Québec'', April 25, 2009. Written by Marc Robitaille as an adaptation of his own novel, the film is set in the late 1960s and stars Pier-Luc Funk as Martin, a young boy who loves baseball and dreams of someday playing for the new Montreal Expos. He is disappointed when he is not chosen for the local youth baseball team by coach Gilbert Turcotte (Roy Dupuis), but his hope is restored when his father Charles (Patrice Robitaille) decides to organize and coach a new baseball team for the kids who didn't make it onto Turcotte's team.Pierre Ranger, "Francis Leclerc — Un été sans point ni coup sûr: l’éveil". ''Séquences'', No. 252 (2008), pp. 14–15. The film received two Prix Jutra nominations at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009, for Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheech (film)
''Cheech'' is a 2006 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Patrice Sauvé (his feature film directorial debut) and written by François Létourneau, based on his own prior stage play ''Cheech, ou Les hommes de Chrysler sont en ville''. The film showed at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Ron runs an escort service in a rundown part of Montreal. His murder leads to suspicion of a number of suspects. They include Cheech, the rival escort agency owner, and Stephanie, a prostitute who wants to leave the business. The film captures a day in the life of six people whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. Their quest for happiness will reveal each of them to one another in ways they never dreamed of. Recognition * 2007 – Nominated – Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (François Létourneau) * 2007 – Nominated – Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing ( Michel Grou) * 2007 – Nominated – Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
