''Love Me, Love Me Not'' (french: J'aime, j'aime pas) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sylvie Groulx and released in 1996. Groulx's only narrative feature film within a career otherwise making

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

s, the film stars

Lucie Laurier Lucie Laurier (born 19 March 1975) is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performances in the films ''Anne Trister'', for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 8th Genie Awards in 19 ...

as Winnifred, a teenage single mother raising her baby on her own after being abandoned by her boyfriend and disowned by her mother her during the pregnancy.

Cast

* Dominic Darceuil * Patrick Labbé *

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* Manon Miclette * Sylvie Léonard

Production

The most gruesome scene for

remains the one where Winnie poses naked in front of a class of young artists. She said, "Filming is one thing and seeing yourself on the screen is another. Even if it's not easy to shoot naked in front of 30 people, and I was shaking like a leaf, it didn't bother me too much, because there was great respect on the set. But on screen, this scene, frankly, I didn't find it beautiful at all! I console myself by telling myself that I was not playing a pin-up ..."

Awards

Miclette received a

Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for scu ...

nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 17th Genie Awards."Over-the-edge Canadian films poised for Genie nod".

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, November 24, 1996.

References

External links

* * 1996 films Canadian drama films Films set in Quebec Films shot in Quebec National Film Board of Canada films Quebec films French-language Canadian films 1990s Canadian films {{Quebec-film-stub