Films d’ancien.ne.s préposé.e.s #1
Since my arrival at the Cinémathèque québécoise in 1998, I have had the opportunity to work with several young colleagues who were hired as receptionists or Café-bar attendants. All fresh out of college or university, they showed a real passion for cinema and saw the Cinémathèque québécoise, I imagine, as a place where they could live this passion with even more intensity. Today, we see that some of the most prominent figures in Quebec cinema today began their professional careers at the Cinémathèque by selling you movie tickets or serving you a beer. Without claiming to be exhaustive, we wish, on the occasion of this 60th anniversary, to pay tribute to some of these former colleagues whose excellence, talent and sensitivity we hope, in all honesty, are in part the result of their time at the Cinémathèque québécoise.
— Marco de Blois, Programmer-Curator, Film, Television and New Media— Animation
With nothing left to lose or to expect from life, a young man confides in his mother in an unusual way. The mother finds herself in the grip of the truth, subjected to the gloomy world of her beloved child.
February 2004. Guy Caron and his wife Jeanne-d’Arc lived in the same house for more than 50 years. A sailor who sailed every ocean, Guy was away for eight months a year, for all his career. A housekeeper, Jeanne-d’Arc raised their nine children. Their old days bring them together; but something fundamental seems to have slipped away from them forever. The director looks at this couple from a voluntary distance, leaving ample room for his quest for meaning.
December 31st, at dusk. Florence, 37 weeks pregnant, is preparing for new year’s eve party. Her friends arrive, they talk loudly, they get dressed and dance together before going out. Florence finally changes her mind and decides to stay home. As she lays down, at the sound of the windy night, she thinks about the arrival of a new year, and about her new life that is about to begin.
Le trio is an incursion into the inert lives of three teenagers.
Official videoclip
As part of the 60th anniversary of the Cinémathèque québécoise
