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''You're Sleeping Nicole'' () is a 2014 Canadian
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Stéphane Lafleur Stéphane Lafleur (born 1976) is a French-Canadian film director, editor and musician.Directors' Fortnight The Directors' Fortnight (, formerly ) is an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festival as a ...
section of the
2014 Cannes Film Festival The 67th Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2014. New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion was the head of the jury for the main competition. French actor Lambert Wilson hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Turkish filmmaker Nuri ...
. The film had a limited release (in Montreal) on 22 August 2014, followed by a general
Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
theatrical release on 29 August 2014. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the
2014 Toronto International Film Festival The 39th annual Toronto International Film Festival, the 39th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held in Canada from 4–14 September 2014. David Dobkin (director), David Dobkin's film ''The Judge (2014 film), The Judg ...
. The film stars Julianne Côté as Nicole, a young woman who is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her quiet small-town life over the course of a summer.


Plot

Nicole Gagnon is left at home for the summer as her parents go on vacation. Looking forward to a peaceful summer she is annoyed when her brother, Rémi, brings his band to the house to practice. She develops a crush on his new drummer, JF. Restless and unable to sleep Nicole decides to use her new credit card to take a vacation. She and her best friend Véronique decide to quit their jobs to go to Iceland for the summer. After Nicole buys the tickets Véronique reveals she does not want to go and the two have a falling out. Nicole is also fired from her job at a thrift shop for theft. Rémi's band dissolves as his best friend is having a child with his girlfriend and he fires JF in anger. He confesses to Nicole he doesn't like playing solo. Nicole goes back to babysitting Martin, a small boy with an adult's voice who has a crush on her. He tells her he is in no rush and will wait for her. After his confession she falls asleep. Returning home she finds the band asleep after practice with JF and Véronique in her parents bed. She throws JF's drum in the pool.


Cast

*
Marc-André Grondin Marc-André Grondin (born March 11, 1984) is a Canadian actor, known for his role as Xavier Laflamme in the 2011 ice hockey film '' Goon''. He also played Zachary Beaulieu in Jean-Marc Vallée's film '' C.R.A.Z.Y.'' (2005), for which he won a Ju ...
as Rémi Gagnon * Fanny Mallette as Mère de Martin * Julianne Côté as Nicole Gagnon *Francis La Haye as JF / batteur * Catherine St-Laurent as Véronique Simard *Simon Larouche as Pat / bassiste


Reception

The film was included in the list of
Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema". ''Welland Tribune'', November 23, ...
feature films of 2014, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals organized by TIFF. It has a Metacritic score of 79%. Released in the United States under the title ''Tu Dors Nicole'', the film garnered positive reviews in ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...
'' and other publications, for an average rating of 7.8/10 at
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. When film critic Barry Hertz created a list of the 23 best Canadian films ever made for ''
The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...
'' in 2023, although ''You're Sleeping Nicole'' was not one of his own selections it was singled out in a sidebar as a favourite of filmmaker
Chandler Levack Chandler Levack is a Canadian writer, director, and filmmaker. Levack is best known for her work as an entertainment writer, and for her feature film directorial debut, ''I Like Movies'', which premiered in the Discovery program at the 2022 To ...
.


Awards

The film garnered six
Canadian Screen Award The Canadian Screen Awards () are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media ( web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy ...
nominations at the
3rd Canadian Screen Awards The 3rd Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 1, 2015, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2014.Best Picture The following is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various films, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Bes ...
,
Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to: Film awards * AACTA Award for Best Direction * Academy Award for Best Director * As ...
(Lafleur), Best Actress (Côté), Best Supporting Actor (
Marc-André Grondin Marc-André Grondin (born March 11, 1984) is a Canadian actor, known for his role as Xavier Laflamme in the 2011 ice hockey film '' Goon''. He also played Zachary Beaulieu in Jean-Marc Vallée's film '' C.R.A.Z.Y.'' (2005), for which he won a Ju ...
), Best Supporting Actress ( Catherine St-Laurent) and
Best Original Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best ...
(Lafleur). ''Tu Dors Nicole'' had nine
Jutra Award Jutras may have several meanings : * Claude Jutra: an award-winning French Canadian filmmaker **Jutra Award: Film awards formerly given in the Canadian province of Quebec, named after the filmmaker and now known as Prix Iris **The Claude Jutra Awa ...
nominations (the second-most of any film for 2014), winning for Best Sound ( Sylvain Bellemare, Pierre Bertrand, and
Bernard Gariépy Strobl Bernard Gariépy Strobl is a Canadian re-recording sound mixer, best known internationally as the supervising re-recording mixer of '' Arrival'' (2016), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Sound (shared with Claude La Haye and Sylvain Bel ...
) and Best Original Music (Rémi Nadeau-Aubin and Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux). The
Vancouver Film Critics Circle The Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) was founded in 2000 by David Spaner and Ian Caddell, in order to help promote Canadian films and the British Columbia film and television industry. Its membership includes print, radio, on-line, and telev ...
named ''Tu Dors Nicole'' Best Canadian Film of 2014, and also honoured it for Best Actress in a Canadian Film (Côté) and Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film (Grondin). The film was the winner of the
Prix collégial du cinéma québécois The Prix collégial du cinéma québécois is an annual Canadian film award, presented to a film from Quebec judged as the best of the year by a jury of students in film studies programs at the province's CEGEPs.Léa Carrier"Je m’appelle humain re ...
in 2015.


Home video

Kino Lorber Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City. Founded in 1977, it was originally known as Kino International until it was acquired by and merged into Lorber HT Digital in 2009. It specializes in art film, art ho ...
has announced a Blu-ray and DVD of ''Tu Dors Nicole'', to be released on 27 October 2015.


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:You're Sleeping Nicole 2014 drama films 2010s French-language films Canadian drama films Films directed by Stéphane Lafleur Canadian black-and-white films French-language Canadian films 2010s Canadian films French-language drama films