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Robin Aubert
Robin Aubert (born May 13, 1972) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director."Robin Aubert: l'appel du Nunavik" '' La Presse'', March 21, 2017. He is most noted for his performance in the film '' (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge)'', for which he received a nomination for [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
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 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-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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marc Dalpé
Jean-Marc Dalpé (born February 21, 1957) is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature. Dalpé studied theatre at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 1973. In 1979, he obtained graduate diploma from the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec. He subsequently worked with several Franco-Ontarian theatre companies, including as a co-founder of Ottawa's Théâtre de la Vieille 17 in 1979. He was also associated with the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury for several years, writing many of his early works there and publishing them with that city's Prise de parole publishing house. He returned to the University of Ottawa in 1987 as writer in residence, and was a grant adjudicator for the Canada Council the following year. In 1990, he was writer in residence at the ''Festival des Francophonies'' in Limoges, France, and in 1993 at Montreal's Nouvelle Compagnie Théâtrale. He won the Governor General's Award on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Jutra
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec."Quebec film awards renamed Prix Iris after Claude Jutra sex scandal" , October 14, 2016. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award (Prix Jutra, with the ceremony called La Soirée des Jutra) in memory of influential Quebec film director , but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of |
Les Invincibles
''Les Invincibles'' is a comedy/drama television series from Radio-Canada produced by Casablanca Productions and Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm. The story is about four men in their early thirties signing a pact ordaining the simultaneous break-up of their current relationships, and the subsequent adoption of a common responsibility-free life. In 2006, the show won an "Olivier" for best drama series. The third and last season ended on March 25, 2009. A remake of the series was made in France. Filming began in Strasbourg in August 2008 and the show was broadcast on the Franco-German Arte network in Fall 2009. Cast * Pierre-François Legendre : Carlos Fréchette * François Létourneau : Pierre-Antoine « P-A » Robitaille * Patrice Robitaille : Steve Chouinard * Rémi-Pierre Paquin : Rémi Durocher * Catherine Trudeau : Lyne Boisvert * Geneviève Néron : Kathleen Samson * Lucie Laurier : Jolène * Amélie Bernard : Vicky * Germain Houde : Alain Robitaille * Louise Bombardier : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Very Own Circus
''My Very Own Circus'' (french: Mon cirque à moi) is a 2020 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Miryam Bouchard. The film stars Jasmine Lemée as Laura, a young girl who has spent years living an itinerant lifestyle with her circus clown father Bill (Patrick Huard) and his stagehand Mandeep (Robin Aubert), but longs for a more conventional and stable life; she is given an opportunity to chase her own dreams when her teacher Patricia (Sophie Lorain) recognizes her academic potential and helps her to secure admission to a private boarding school, challenging her relationship with her father. The film was inspired in part by Bouchard's own experience as the daughter of a circus performer, although she has clarified that it should not be interpreted autobiographically. The film premiered in theatres on August 14, 2020.Anne-Frédérique Hébert-Dolbec"«Mon cirque à moi»: un baume pour égayer les jours sombres" ''Le Devoir ''Le Devoir'' (, "Duty") is a French-language new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Internship In Canada
My or MY may refer to: Arts and entertainment * My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station * Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe * ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak * ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon Business * Marketing year, variable period * Model year, product identifier Transport * Motoryacht * Motor Yacht, a name prefix for merchant vessels * Midwest Airlines (Egypt), IATA airline designation * MAXjet Airways, United States, defunct IATA airline designation Other uses * ''My'', the genitive form of the English pronoun ''I'' * Malaysia, ISO 3166-1 country code ** .my .my is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eas ..., the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) * Burmese language (ISO 639 alpha-2) * Megalithic Yard, a hypothesised, prehistoric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amsterdam (2013 Film)
''Amsterdam'' is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Stefan Miljevic and released in 2013. The film centres on Jeff (Gabriel Sabourin), Marc (Louis Champagne) and Sam (Robin Aubert), three friends from Quebec who plan a weekend fishing trip that unexpectedly turns into an impromptu flight to Amsterdam, where Sam reveals that his wife Madeleine (Suzanne Clément) is pregnant and he does not want to return home."Boys weekend away becomes a mess of lies - and plot". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 11, 2013. The film received two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards The 2nd Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 9, 2014, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2013. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miraculum (film)
''Miraculum'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Daniel Grou and released on February 28, 2014. Synopsis The film follows the development of different stories at the same time. Simon (played by Gabriel Sabourin) finally returns to his home country after spending years abroad. He does so illegally entering with drugs, that he believes will help him fix a mistake he committed a while ago. Raymond (played by Julien Poulin) plans a trip with his mistress, she however refuses to leave her husband. Martin (played by Robin Aubert) lies to his wife (played by Anne Dorval) on the eve of their trip and goes spend the night in a casino. Lastly, it depict the soul tearing dilemma Étienne (Xavier Dolan) faces as a Jehovah's Witnesses, Jéhovah's witness living with leukemia. His fiancée, who also shares his faith, deals with a similar situation went she needs to attend to a plane crash survivor. Cast * Marilyn Castonguay : Julie * Gabriel Sabourin : Simon * Robin Aubert : Martin * Xa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father And Guns
''Father and Guns (french: De père en flic, italic=yes)'' is a Canadian comedy film originating from Quebec that was released in 2009. Directed by Émile Gaudreault, the film stars Michel Côté (actor), Michel Côté and Louis-José Houde as Jacques and Marc Laroche, feuding father and son police officers who are forced to re-evaluate their relationship when they are paired up on an undercover assignment in a father-son adventure therapy camp. The film's cast also includes Caroline Dhavernas, Rémy Girard, Robin Aubert, Pierre Collin and Patrick Drolet. The film took in over $11 million at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing French-language film in Canadian history. A sequel film, ''Father and Guns 2 (De père en flic 2)'', was released in 2017. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Negro (film)
''The Negro'' (french: Le Nèg') is a 2002 Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Morin."Le Neg' shows up bigots: Morin's work is tough, personal". 'Montreal Gazette'', October 21, 2002. An examination of racism, the film centres on a police officer in a small Quebec town who is trying to reconstruct, through the conflicting testimony of witnesses and participants, the events of the night before, when the petty vandalism of a woman's lawn jockey escalated within a few hours to the woman being found dead and the young Black Canadian suspected of committing the vandalism having been viciously beaten in a field. The film's original title, equivalent in Quebec French to "the nigger", was controversial, with a Black youth group in Montreal demanding that the film's title and promotional poster be changed. Morin, however, defended his choice to use a controversial title, stating that "If it stirs up some controversy, then at least people will be talking about racism." The film's cast in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelström (film)
''Maelström'' is a 2000 Canadian psychological drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed young businesswoman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she killed in a hit-and-run accident. Employing fantasy and comedic elements, ''Maelström'' is narrated by a talking fish. Villeneuve conceived of the story, basing it on his interest in car accidents and modelling the protagonist after various women he knew. He cast Croze, then a novice actress, in the lead role. Filming took place in Montreal in 1999, with animatronics to depict the fish narrator. The film premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival in August 2000 and received positive reviews, with some detractors. It won five Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Plot While being gutted alive by a fishmonger, a dying fish chooses to share a story that took place in Quebec dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Escort (1996 Film)
''The Escort'' (french: L'Escorte) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Denis Langlois and released in 1996. Described by Langlois as "a comedy of manners in the age of AIDS", the films stars Paul-Antoine Taillefer and Éric Cabana as Philippe and Jean-Marc, a gay couple whose lives are thrown into turmoil when Steve (Robin Aubert), a young man whom they erroneously believed to be a stripper when he showed up at their party, becomes embroiled in their lives in unexpected ways, while Philippe's longtime friend Christian (Patrice Coquereau), Steve's lover, struggles to come out as HIV-positive. The film premiered at the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival."Drama opens film series Perspective Canada at festival". ''Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
