Jack Paradise
Our summer cycle will be festive or not. Sound and image, song and dance, instrument and breathing, strings and gestures: so many possible combinations to express what cinema and music can achieve and express together. Musicals, concert films, catchy music. Jazz, classical, contemporary, disco, punk... Revolt and enchantment, distress and emphasis, joy and rhythm, melancholy and bass, laughter and stridency: diverse expressions characterizing cinema and music's historical alliance, will definitely make us fly, dream, dance!
From the 30's to the present day and across all possible genres, this cycle aims to open our minds at a time when we most need it. The first week of July will be an eventful one, as the cycle will open with several evenings in cabaret mode, where we will present for the first time concert films produced in Quebec during the confinement, with the participation of major artists of the current music scene: Klô Pelgag, Marie Davidson and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
In the 30's, the jazz nightlife in Montreal !
The film stars Roy Dupuis as Jacques Paradis, a jazz pianist who becomes a star of Montreal's nightclub scene in the 1930s under the stage name Jack Paradise, and Dawn Tyler Watson as Curly Brown, the singer in his band with whom he has a tumultuous on-again off-again romantic relationship.(Wikipedia)
Gilles Noël
Gilles Noël has to his credit some fifteen screenplays, including two short films that he directed himself. In 1995, he shot his first feature film, Erreur sur la personne, which earned him several accolades and participation in numerous festivals. In 2004, Noël released Jack Paradise, an ambitious second film about the Roaring Twenties in the Quebec metropolis. (Films du Québec)
Explore
