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Anne Trister (VOSTA)
Location
Main screening room
Date
May 19th, 2022
Duration
103 min
Cycle
Léa Pool: Moving Figures

Filmmaker Léa Pool has been creating unique work in Quebec cinematography for several decades. In addition to asking genre questions since her first films, she asserted since her beginnings a sharp, precise look at the paths of individuals at the crossroads, carried by subjective, existential quests, nourished by an exemplary narrative breath and a mastery of the image.

In the presence of the director

Anne Trister
Directed by
Léa Pool
Language
French with English subtitles
Actors
Albane Guilhe, Louise Marleau, Hugues Quester, Lucie Laurier
Origins
Québec
Year
1986
Duration
103 min
Genre
Drama
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

After her father's funeral in Israel, Anne leaves her native Switzerland to move to Montreal. At first, she stays with Alix, a child psychologist who takes care of Sarah, a little girl in need of attention. Anne then takes possession of a large abandoned artist's studio found for her by Simon, a family friend, and repaints it with huge trompe-l'oeil frescoes. Gradually, a tender love develops between Anne and Alix, which is not without its problems since Alix is having a satisfying affair with Thomas.

Anne Trister
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Léa Pool

Léa Pool was born and raised in Switzerland, before emigrating to Quebec in 1975 at the age of 25. After studying communication, she taught cinema and video at UQAM, while producing TV programs and her first films. Esteemed by the public and the critics alike, the works she produced in the 80’s (Strass Café, La femme de l'hôtel, Anne Trister, À corps perdu), stood out at international festivals and already bear witness to the filmmaker's favorite themes: quests for individual meaning, feminine trajectories, intimate relationships... Her fiction work of the 90’s cemented her place in Quebec cinematography while she started to veer towards documentary cinema. Over the past two decades, Léa Pool has produced several international co-productions, as well as her greatest public success: La passion d’Augustine (2015). Her work has been regularly honored around the world, earning her prestigious distinctions.

Photo : Monic Richard

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Anne Trister est un film sur l'absence et la séduction, sur ce que le vide produit autour de soi, mais en même temps, une étape, un moment de l'existence où tout doit être remis en question, bousculé, pour remettre sa vie en ordre.

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