''A Montreal Girl'' (french: La Fille de Montréal) is a Canadian drama film, directed by
Jeanne Crépeau
Jeanne Crépeau (born 1961 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Montreal, Quebec,Thomas Waugh, ''The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas''. McGill-Queen's University Press, ...
and released in 2010. The film stars
Amélie Grenier
''Amélie'' (also known as ''Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain''; ; en, The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain, italic=yes) is a 2001 French-language romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume L ...
as Ariane, a lesbian filmmaker who has lived in the same apartment in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
's rapidly gentrifying
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal () is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The Plateau-Mont-Royal takes its name from its location on a plateau, on the eastern side of Mont-Royal and overlooking downtown Montreal, across ...
district since her student days, but who is now confronted in her 40s with a
renoviction notice giving her six months to vacate the apartment.
[Robert Daudelin, "La fille de Montréal de Jeanne Crépeau". ''24 images'', Issue 149 (October–November 2010), p. 46.]
The film also stars
Réal Bossé
Réal Bossé is a Canadian actor from Quebec who performs mostly in francophone films and television. The son of farmers, Bossé grew up in Rivière-Bleue, Quebec. He won a Jutra Award in 2008 as Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting ...
, Marie-Hélène Montpetit and Jean Turcotte as Ariane's core circle of friends.
Semi-autobiographical, the film started out as a documentary about Crépeau's own real-life eviction from her longtime apartment before evolving into a narrative fiction film, and was shot in her real apartment.
The film premiered at Montreal's
Festival du nouveau cinéma in 2010,
[ before going into limited commercial release in early 2011."Tapis rouge pour La fille de Montréal"]
'' Le Devoir'', January 25, 2011.
See also
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List of LGBT films directed by women
This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related films that were directed by women. LGBT-themed films directed by women – especially, but not exclusively, lesbian-themed movies – are an important and distinct subset of the gen ...
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