Voyages en Italie
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Presented in collaboration with the Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles
Big Screen Competition, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023
Can a romantic escapade reignite a couple's flame? She talks him into going away for a few days without the kids. Anywhere he wants except Italy, since he's gone there with all his exes. Spain? The hiking trails in Aubrac? They settle on Sicily – since he says it's not exactly Italy.
Sophie Letourneur
Sophie Letourneur is a French film director and screenwriter. After studying at L’École Duperré and then L’École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, she directed her first short, La tête dans le vide, in 2004. Then came two mid-length films, Manue Bolonaise and Roc et Canyon (Directors’ Fortnight, Rencontres de Brive, Côté Court) which led to her first feature, Chicks (La vie au Ranch), acclaimed by critics on its theatrical release in 2010. In 2011, she presented The Shady Sailor (Le marin masqué) at the Locarno Film Festival, where she filmed her second feature Les coquillettes, presented there in 2012 and released in France in March 2013. The following year, Sophie Letourneur directed Lolita Chammah and Benjamin Biolay in Gaby Baby Doll, a bucolic and comedic fairytale. In 2019, she made Enormous (Énorme) with Marina Foïs and Jonathan Cohen, exploring the vicissitudes of maternity from conception to birth. Voyages en Italie is her fifth feature film.
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