''Juniper Tree'' (french: Le Piège d'Issoudun) is a Canadian drama film, directed by
Micheline Lanctôt
Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
Biography
Lanctôt was born in Frelighsburg, Quebec. Her post-secondary education was in music, fine arts, and theatre at École de musique ...
and released in 2003.
[Charles-Henri Ramond]
"Piège d’Issoudun, Le – Film de Micheline Lanctôt"
''Films du Québec'', March 20, 2009. Based in part on the
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...
's fairy tale ''
The Juniper Tree'',
[Greenhill, Pauline (2014) "'Le piège d’Issoudun': Motherhood in Crisis". ''Narrative Culture'', Vol. 1, Iss. 1 (2014).] the film stars
Sylvie Drapeau
Sylvie Drapeau (born 1962) is a Canadian actress and writer from Baie-Comeau, Quebec.Marie-France Bornais"«La terre» de Sylvie Drapeau: se tourner vers la lumière" ''Le Journal de Québec'', May 4, 2019.
As an actress, she is most noted for he ...
as Esther, a depressed woman interacting with police officer Laurier (Frédérick De Grandpré) after failing in an attempt to kill herself and her children.
[
Drapeau received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Actress at the 6th Genie Awards.][John Griffin, "Grande seduction tops Jutra nods". '']Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...
'', January 22, 2004.
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2003 films
Canadian drama films
Films shot in Quebec
Films set in Quebec
Films directed by Micheline Lanctôt
French-language Canadian films
2000s Canadian films
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