White Skin
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
Thierry has just met Claire and has fallen deeply in love even though she has the only characteristic he dislikes in a woman: very white skin. Claire tries to discourage his advances but they are only drawn closer together. He begins wasting away in the eyes of his best friend Henri but when he realises that it was Claire's sister who savagely attacked Henri in a hotel, Thierry understands how little he knows about her and her mysterious blood ties.
Adaptation of Joël Champetier's novel.
Daniel Roby
Daniel Roby is a Quebec director who has also worked as a cinematographer, producer, director and editor. He is a graduate of Concordia University and the University of Southern California. His first feature film, La Peau blanche (2004) was awarded Best Canadian First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and was named one of the top 10 Canadian films of the year. The MOMA awarded it the same prize. Then, in 2005, the Claude Jutra Award at the Genie Awards. His second feature film, Funkytown, debuted at the Toronto Film Festival in 2010 and was released in theaters in 2011, earning the best box office in Canada in 2011.
