The Peanut Butter Solution
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
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.
Known for his unique and daring documentaries (Sad Song of Yellow Skin; Waiting for Fidel), Michael Rubbo made his first children's film, taking Les contes pour tous, produced by Rock Demers, down the path of fantasy, thereby reconnecting with the spirit of Le Martien de Noël, which inspired the series.
Michael Rubbo
Michael Rubbo is an Australian filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. He approached the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) about an internship, but they were so impressed by his thesis film that they hired him to make films, initially for children. He spent the next 20 years there, as a director, writer, editor and producer, mainly of serious films. At the time, Rubbo became an early pioneer in the field of metafilm, creating subjective, highly personal films that were more like personal journals than objective records of reality. His best-known NFB films are Sad Song of Yellow Skin (1972), Waiting for Fidel (1973), Wet Earth and Warm people (1975), and Margaret Atwood: Once in August (1984). Rubbo has also directed and written four children's feature films including The Peanut Butter Solution (1985), Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1988), The Return of Tommy Tricker (1994), and the Daytime Emmy award-winning film Vincent and Me (1990).
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