Le sphinx
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Married with children, Réal falls in love with Angie, a singer at an adult nightclub. Leaving his family hastily to live with the woman he loves, Réal unwittingly finds himself drawn into the seedy underworld on which she depends. Through a series of circumstances, Réal becomes a stand-up comedian, and slowly sees his partner become entangled in a web of lies that threaten to destroy their relationship.
Louis Saia
Louis Saia is a Québécois director, screenwriter, and actor. For more than 40 years, he has been associated with the success of numerous comedy productions in television, film, and theater. In addition to a very close collaboration over the years with Louise Roy, he collaborated early on with actor and screenwriter Claude Meunier, whether directing the shows for Paul et Paul (1978, 1980), co-writing Broue and Les voisins, or co-writing scripts for Ding et Dong (1987, 1991). He also directed and created several shows for Rock et Belles Oreilles and other comedians. In the mid-1990s, he co-wrote the first 26 episodes of La petite vie with Claude Meunier, the biggest hit in Quebec television history. He eventually wrote and directed his first feature film, Le sphinx, in 1995. From 1995 to 1998, he wrote the scripts for the teen sitcom Radio Enfer, while simultaneously achieving one of the biggest box-office hits in Quebec cinema with Les Boys (1997), for which he wrote and directed two sequels (1998, 2001) and a television series (2007–2012). He sometimes contributed to the Histoires de filles (1999–2008) series, his third foray into the world of sitcoms.
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