Notre été avec André + Françoise Durocher, waitress
In two steps, we celebrate the memory of the versatile craftsman and great director that was André Brassard. In the moving documentary Notre été avec André, director Claude Fournier and producer Marie-José Raymond visit Brassard, immobilized by a stroke, to ask him to tell his story. The film will be preceded by Françoise Durocher, Waitress, Brassard's first film. Then, in La naissance d'une messe, Jean-Claude Coulbois turns his camera towards the director to expose his work with the actors of Messe solennelle pour une pleine lune d'été, by Michel Tremblay.
The last meeting with the great stage director André Brassard.
André Brassard
André Brassard is a Quebec director and producer. From 1968 to 2003, he created the majority of Michel Tremblay's plays. With close to 160 productions, including several premieres, in over 40 years, he is considered one of Quebec's greatest directors. Also attracted to the cinema, André Brassard brought to the screen three scripts by Michel Tremblay. The first, Françoise Durocher, waitress, is a short film of about twenty minutes that he directed in 1972. The second, Il était une fois dans l'Est, combines the action of the plays Hosanna and Les Belles-Sœurs. The film was presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974. The last one, Le soleil se lève en retard, is an original script. The film was released in 1977.
Claude Fournier
Claude Fournier (born July 23, 1931 in Waterloo, Quebec) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, editor and cinematographer. He is one of the forerunners of the cinema in Quebec. He began his career in journalism then moved to the Radio-Canada as a news cameraman. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1957 as a writer and director, and he worked on early cinéma-vérité films such as À Saint-Henri le cinq septembre and La lutte. He left the Board to work in the United States with famed documentary filmmakers Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker, then returned to Montreal in 1963 to set up his own production company, Rose Films. In 1970, he directed Two Women in Gold (Deux femmes en or), one of the most successful Quebec films of its time.
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