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Mouvements du désir
Location
Main screening room
Date
May 23rd, 2022
Duration
93 min
Cycle
Léa Pool: Moving Figures

Filmmaker Léa Pool has been creating unique work in Quebec cinematography for several decades. In addition to asking genre questions since her first films, she asserted since her beginnings a sharp, precise look at the paths of individuals at the crossroads, carried by subjective, existential quests, nourished by an exemplary narrative breath and a mastery of the image.

Desire in Motion
Directed by
Léa Pool
Language
French with English subtitles
Actors
Élise Guilbault, Jean-François Pichette, Valérie Kaprisky
Origins
Québec, Switzerland
Year
1994
Duration
93 min
Genre
Drama
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

Catherine and her seven year old daughter, Charlotte, leave Montreal by train to go to Vancouver. On the train, Catherine meets Vincent. A passion unfolds in the lives of two people who thought they had lost the ability to open themselves to an emotion as strong as it is unexpected.

Desire in Motion

Léa Pool

Léa Pool was born and raised in Switzerland, before emigrating to Quebec in 1975 at the age of 25. After studying communication, she taught cinema and video at UQAM, while producing TV programs and her first films. Esteemed by the public and the critics alike, the works she produced in the 80’s (Strass Café, La femme de l'hôtel, Anne Trister, À corps perdu), stood out at international festivals and already bear witness to the filmmaker's favorite themes: quests for individual meaning, feminine trajectories, intimate relationships... Her fiction work of the 90’s cemented her place in Quebec cinematography while she started to veer towards documentary cinema. Over the past two decades, Léa Pool has produced several international co-productions, as well as her greatest public success: La passion d’Augustine (2015). Her work has been regularly honored around the world, earning her prestigious distinctions.

Photo : Monic Richard

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Toute la facture du film repose sur l’alternance du réel et de l’imaginaire. Comme nos deux amants se connaissent peu, ils imagineront l’univers de l’autre en y projetant leur propre univers. Certaines images mentales en mélangeant le réel et l’imaginaire prendront la forme d’un rêve angoissant. La caméra de Pierre Mignot ne souffre pas de la maladie de Lelouch. Et les images sont souvent d’une beauté souveraine. Un film pour voyeurs? Non. C’est un pourvoyeur en émotions subtiles à travers des sentiments qui s’apparentent aux teintes du pastel (le gris et le bleu) comme pour mieux respecter le non-dit des éclairs discrets et du tonnerre en suspension.
Janick Beaulieu, Séquences, 1994
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About Léa Pool
Filmography | Director
Filmography | Writer

Léa Pool: the one who reivented herself as a filmmaker

Few women were directors in Quebec when Léa Pool made her debut. She says that she has never made this femininity a driving force or seen it as a brake, but she has patiently built a body of work paying homage to women through complex mother-daughter relationships. Meeting with the one whose painful childhood ended up being scarred by the cinema.

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