Dehors Serge dehors
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.
The film will be followed by a discussion with the directors on February 16.
For more than six years, actor Serge Thériault (Ding et Dong, La petite vie, Gaz Bar Blues) has been suffering from a serious depression and has been living out of sight. For Anna, his partner at the end of her tether, Mélina, their daughter, and Robert and Jolande, the devoted neighbors in the basement, the drama is played out, day and night, in the bareness of words, in the face of a being adrift who is endangering the personal equilibrium of the caregivers. A true closed-door film haunted by the ghostly presence of a man emptied of all desire, the film is the story of a relentless struggle against the dark forces that take possession of daily life and abolish time. DEHORS SERGE DEHORS is a film about waiting and the story of a slow ascent to the light. It is in itself a small miracle of resilience that humbly testifies to the benevolent power of cinema.
Martin Fournier
Martin Fournier is a Canadian film director from Quebec, most noted as co-director with Pier-Luc Latulippe of the documentary films Manor (Manoir, 2015), Dehors Serge dehors (2021), and more recently Simon & Marianne (2024). Manor won the Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film and the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2017. Separately from Latulippe, Fournier has also directed the short documentary film Robert Lepage: Tuned to a Different Frequency, Cœur de pirate's music video for Pour un infidèle, and episodes of the documentary television series La vie nous arrive.
Pier-Luc Latulippe
Pier-Luc Latulippe is a Canadian film director from Quebec, most noted as co-director with Martin Fournier of the documentary films Manor (Manoir, 2015), Dehors Serge dehors (2021), and more recently Simon & Marianne (2024). Manor won the Prix Iris for Best Documentary Film and the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2017. Separately from Fournier, Latulippe has also directed a number of short films, including Dernière étape avant le silence, Edges, River (Rives), The Taste of Vietnam (Le goût du Vietnam) and On the Mountain (Sur la montagne).
