Funkytown
Clubs, nightclubs and other rowdy dance floors are places of ligthness, seduction or dissidence, where musical trends, dramas and romances are born. They are the sulphurous theater of the bodies that are bring together , but also a mental space that can make the multitude and the solitude, the party feeling and the melancholy coexist. From the disco scene of the 1970s to today, this cycle brings together films where people dance without a tomorrow, in the light of neon and strobes.
At the end of the 1970's in Montreal, a pioneer city of disco, people from all walks of life gravitate around the Starlight nightclub and get caught up in the excitement of the period. But with the failure of the 1980 referendum, the economic downturn and the decline of individuals following the excesses came the disenchanted aftermath. A look back at a key period inspired by the real history of the famous Lime Light nightclub.
The trailer is in French original version, but the movie will be presentend with English subtitles.
Daniel Roby
Daniel Roby is a Quebecois director who has also worked as a cinematographer, producer, stage director, and editor. He graduated from Concordia University and the University of Southern California. His first feature film, White Skin (La peau blanche, 2004), was named Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and was listed among the ten best Canadian films of the year. His second feature, Funkytown (2011), which premiered at TIFF, achieved the highest box office in Canada in 2011. With Louis Cyr (2013), he won 9 Jutra Awards, including Best Film. After a brief stint in television, he returned to the big screen with the films Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume, 2018) and Target Number One (Suspect numéro un, 2020). He is currently working on the biographical film Villeneuve: Rise of a Champion, which tells the story of the late race car driver Gilles Villeneuve. The film is set to be released in 2025.
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