''The Heart of Madame Sabali'' (french: Le Cœur de Madame Sabali) is a 2015 tragicomic feature film by Canadian director
Ryan McKenna.
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"Ryan McKenna finds heart, and humour, in Le coeur de Madame Sabali"
''Montreal Gazette
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'', December 3, 2015. It stars
Marie Brassard
Marie Brassard is a Canadian actress,Histoire du théâtre au Canada'. Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto; 1990. p. 158. theatrical writer and director. She is known for her work with playwright and actor Robert LepageNew Yo ...
,
Amadou & Mariam, Youssef Camara and
Paul Ahmarani
Paul Ahmarani (born 1972) is a Canadian actor. Both his parents have a teaching background; one is from Cacouna, Quebec, Cacouna, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec and the other from the Mediterranean coast. Ahmarani is known for his roles in the movies ...
.
The film won the Focus Grand Prize for Canadian/Québec Film at the 2015
Festival de nouveau Cinéma.
Plot
Jeannette (Brassard) is a white Québécois woman with a severe heart condition living in a suburb of
Montreal
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. After undergoing transplant surgery where she receives the heart of a
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...
an woman named Madame Sabali, she begins to experience flashbacks of her donor's brutal murder. Soon thereafter, Jeannette becomes friends with Madame Sabali's son Chibale (Camara), who believes she is the reincarnation of his mother.
Response
The film won the Grand Prix Focus at the 2015
Festival du nouveau cinéma, and Brassard received a
Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for
Best Actress in a Canadian Film at the
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2015.
References
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Tragicomedy films
2015 films
Films set in Montreal
Films shot in Montreal
Canadian black comedy films
French-language Canadian films
2010s Canadian films
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