''It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux'' () is a Canadian comedy film, directed by
Denise Filiatrault
Denise Filiatrault, (born May 16, 1931) is a Canadian actress and director.
Biography
Filiatrault attained star status on TV in the 1960s, co-starring with Dominique Michel in the Radio-Canada television series '' Moi et l'autre'' (1967–71 ...
and released in 1998. The film was based on the comedic novel by
Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright.
Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood ...
.
The film centers on a group of women in
Montreal
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who meet once a week at a weight loss clinic."From coarse comedy to subliminal drama: Nowhere else in cinema has the subject of a woman's obesity been as well dramatized as it is here - and without any politically correct sermonizing". ''
The Globe and Mail
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'', March 5, 1999. Led by the titular Laura Cadieux (
Ginette Reno
Ginette Reno (born Ginette Raynault; 28 April 1946) is a Canadian people, Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. She has received nominations for the Genie Award, Genie and Gemini Awards and is a multi-recipient of the Juno Award. She is a ...
), the women exchange stories and jokes and gossip in the waiting room. The women include Mme Bolduc (Adèle Reinhardt), who also suffers from
eczema
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; the clinically depressed Mme Gladu (Mireille Thibault); the pregnant Mme Tardif ( Sophie Lorain); and Mme Brouillette (Denise Dubois), a
comic book
A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and wri ...
fanatic. Meanwhile Laura's best friend, Mme Therrien (
Pierrette Robitaille
Pierrette Robitaille C.M. (born June 6, 1950) is a Canadian film and television actress from Quebec.
Career
Robitaille is a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Actress, for her role as Mme Therrien in '' It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C't'à ...
), spends the entire film running around the city on a wild goose chase after Laura's son briefly got separated from them in the
Montreal Metro
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en route to the appointment, and she immediately rushed off to find him entirely unaware that he turned up safe just moments later; and Vovonne (Danièle Lorain), another woman normally part of the group, has won a large sum of money at the casino and goes to her husband's workplace to tell him the news, but is getting stalled by his assistant Albert (
Martin Drainville
Martin Drainville (born August 21, 1964) is a Canadian film and television actor and comedian from Quebec. He is best known for his role in the film '' Louis 19, le roi des ondes'', for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at ...
) because her husband is having sex with her friend Alice (
Sonia Vachon
Sonia Vachon (born March 14, 1966, in Magog, Quebec) is a Canadian actress.Sarah Bélisle"Un beau cadeau pour Sonia Vachon" ''Le Journal de Montréal'', March 28, 2012. She is most noted for her performance in the film '' 5150 Elm's Way (5150, rue ...
) in the back room."A comedy with some meat on it". ''
National Post
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'', March 9, 1999.
At the
19th Genie Awards
The 19th Genie Awards were held, by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, on February 4, 1999 to honour Canadian films released in 1998. It marked only the second time in the 1990s, after the 16th Genie Awards in January 1996, that the awar ...
, both Reno and Robitaille were nominated for Best Actress, and Tremblay and
François Dompierre
François Dompierre C.M. (born July 1, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter and composer, best known as a composer of film scores.Best Original Song for "Laura la belle". A sequel film, ''
Laura Cadieux II
''Laura Cadieux II'' () is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Denise Filiatrault and released in 1999. A sequel to the 1998 film '' It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C'est à ton tour, Laura Cadieux)'', the film placed the characters from the first f ...
(Laura Cadieux...la suite)'', was released in 1999."Laura takes a cruise: Cadieux, part deux, offers laughs, but lacks depth of original". ''
Montreal Gazette
''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
It is the only English-language daily newspape ...