L'eau chaude, l'eau frette
Les anniversaires s’enchaînent mais ne se ressemblent pas ! Pour souligner les 50 ans de l’Association coopérative de productions audio-visuelles (ACPAV), nous présentons plusieurs longs métrages et un programme de courts afin de mesurer la place exceptionnelle occupée par cette organisation au sein de la cinématographie québécoise. Plusieurs cinéastes ayant contribué à leur vaste catalogue viendront présenter leurs films et parfois ceux des autres! D’André Forcier à Benoit Pilon, de Brigitte Sauriol à Pierre Falardeau, en passant par Léa Pool et Paul Tana (pour n’en nommer que quelques uns), l’histoire du cinéma au Québec s’écrit avec l’ACPAV depuis maintenant cinq décennies.
The Cinémathèque québécoise is pleased to partner with Éléphant : mémoire du cinéma québécois to show each month, on the big screen, a restored work from its film repertoire.
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L'eau chaude l'eau frette is a poetry of cruelty, a celebration of anarchy where friends and enemies are seated in a bar in Saint-Denis in honor of Polo's forty-third birthday. Each one, taking advantage of this great meeting to settle their accounts and wash their dirty laundry in public, the film ends on a half-bitter, half-sad note where all were scalded and rejected without sparing, the whole in a great finale; promised to a tomorrow that will be disappointing.
André Forcier
André Forcier produced and directed his first short film, Chroniques labradoriennes in 1966. At the beginning of his career, he took on all sorts of jobs to finance his first feature film, Le retour de l’immaculée conception. In 1974, following the success of Bar Salon, Forcier was awarded the Silver Siren by Vittorio De Sica at the Sorrento Festival in Italy. He continued his career by directing several films with enchanting and surreal atmospheres (L’eau chaude, l’eau frette, Au clair de la lune, Kalamazoo, Une histoire inventée, Le vent du Wyoming, La comtesse de Bâton Rouge). After a few minor works, he returned in 2009 with Je me souviens, which many consider to be his best film. He was the first Quebec filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française in 1987. In 2003, he was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier and, in 2010, he won the Governor General's Award of Canada, the highest distinction in media arts in the country.
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