… The year ends and it’s time to have fun making a top 5 of the best films I’ve seen in 2018. This year, I decided to make two top 5: feature films and short films. Why? Because I saw nearly 100 films from each of these 2 categories. In…
« Be careful, we shouldn’t step back. » Marie Curie With the help of her delivery-boy friend, Dilili, a young Kanak, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Époque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, each of whom…
“I don’t wanna be a star. I want to be a legend.” Blaze is inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three different periods of time,…
« One’s originality comes from the inability to emulate your influences. » John Lennon On a road trip through an alternate universe, where Elvis Presley and Jackie Wilson never died, Almost Almost Famous explores the lives of three of the world’s top tribute artists, the cost of borrowed fame and the risk…
“Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.” Emily Dickinson Can we really know what’s in the heart of one of our loved ones? A Sister’s Song is the intimate and delicate story of two sisters Marina and Tatiana, who live apart because of the…
« We accept that things can begin before us, not that can survive us. » Guido Morselli The many objects that we accumulate begin their production journey in a programmed and silent industrial site where borderline men work in isolation, without any interference. Unbeknownst to them, these men form the basis of…
The 21st edition of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is about to begin. From November 8th to 18th, you will have the chance to see a selection of 157 movies – including 25 world premieres, 17 North-American premieres, 30 canadian premieres and 51 Quebec premieres – from 47 countries,…
« … and saw the island rising in the distant sheen, white and filmy; a phantom island. » Sheridan Le Fanu An adrift and alienated couple’s struggles blur into enchanting and mysterious Irish landscapes. Deliberately melodramatic, yet bold and experimental in visual style, Phantom Islands walks the very fine line…
