The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
André Masson, an auctioneer at the famous Scottie’s auction house, receives a letter one day stating that a painting by Egon Schiele has been discovered in Mulhouse at the home of a young worker. Very skeptical, he makes the trip and has to face the truth: the painting is authentic, a masterpiece gone missing since 1939, confiscated by the Nazis. André sees this discovery as the pinnacle of his career, but also the beginning of a struggle that could jeopardize it. Fortunately, he will be assisted by his ex-wife and colleague Bertina, and by his eccentric intern Aurore...
Pascal Bonitzer
Pascal Bonitzer, born in 1946 in Paris, published his first article in the Cahiers du Cinéma in 1969. Some of his film critiques and essays were later compiled into collections. In 1976, he contributed to the screenplay for Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère... by René Allio. This was followed in 1977 by his work on Les Sœurs Brontë by André Téchiné, and in 1982, he wrote for three films: Tricheurs by Barbet Schroeder, Liberty Belle by Pascal Kané, and L’amour par terre by Jacques Rivette. He went on to co-write ten films with Rivette, often collaborating with Christine Laurent, including La bande des quatre (1987) and La belle noiseuse (1991). During this time, he also worked on films by André Téchiné and Raoul Ruiz. Bonitzer directed his first film in 1995, Encore, which won the Jean Vigo Prize in 1996. He has since directed eight other films, including his most recent work, Le tableau volé, released in 2024. He is the father of Agathe and Adam Bonitzer. Their mother is filmmaker Sophie Fillières, to whom the film is dedicated.
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