Love and Human Remains
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.
In the presence of producer Roger Frappier
Winner of the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Brad Fraser in 1993
After several unsuccessful attempts, David gives up his dream of becoming an actor. Working as a waiter, the young gay man attracts the admiration of Kane, a colleague who is unsure of his sexual orientation. David's roommate Candy is torn between two loves: her friend Jerri and Robert, the seducer. But it's not just romantic stories that fuel the conversations among this group of friends. A mysterious killer is on the loose in the city who, according to a psychic, is lurking in David's circle of friends.
Denys Arcand
Denys Arcand, born in 1941 in Deschambault, Quebec, is a Quebecois film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He studied history at the Université de Montréal in the 1960s. A filmmaker whose style has evolved significantly over the course of his career, he is best known internationally for his two major successes: The Decline of the American Empire (1986) and its sequel, The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the only Canadian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His work reflects the transformation of Quebec cinema, moving from incisive documentaries to fiction deeply rooted in the socio-cultural realities of the time. He then channelled his disappointment at the result of the 1980 referendum on Quebec sovereignty into themes of personal emancipation. After achieving international acclaim in the early 2000s, he went back to his roots in the mid-2010s, exploring themes he holds dear in films like An Eye for Beauty (2014) and The Fall of the American Empire (2018).
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