''Love Me, Love Me Not'' () 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 (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

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 Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress, Bes ...

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

Cast

* Dominic Darceuil * Patrick Labbé * Caroline Néron *

Manon Miclette Manon Miclette is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 1996 film '' Love Me, Love Me Not (J'aime, j'aime pas)'', for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 17th Genie ...

* 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), known as the "Etrog Awards" for sculptor ...

nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the

17th Genie Awards The 17th Genie Awards were held on November 27, 1996, to honour films released in late 1995 and 1996. They were the ''second'' Genie Award ceremony held in that year; the 16th Genie Awards were delayed from the fall of 1995 and took place in Ja ...

."Over-the-edge Canadian films poised for Genie nod".

Canadian Press The Canadian Press (CP; , ) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Established in 1917 as a vehicle for Canadian newspapers to exchange news and information, The Canadian Press has been a private, not-for-profit c ...

, 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