CQ 60 ans
Pascal Plante, who is launching his new feature Red Rooms at the Karlovy-Vary Film Festival and Fantasia this summer, stands out for his talent as a director and his acute sense of mise en scène. This former Concordia University student is also a cinephile with the ability to analyze filmmakers' work to highlight what makes it strong, powerful and unique. During the lock-in, he brilliantly performed a voice-over commentary on a scene from Europa '51, by Roberto Rossellini, to, he wrote, "publicly profess my love for this type of minimalist, yet ultra-efficient mise-en-scene". His speech was clear and enlightening. On the occasion of our 60th anniversary, we jumped at the chance to invite this cinephile director to comment live on this classic of Italian neo-realism. Pascal Plante will guide us through Rossellini's genius. At the same time, we'll learn more about what fascinates and inspires him.
As part of the 60th anniversary of the Cinémathèque québécoise
Pascal Plante
Pascal Plante is a Montreal filmmaker whose most recent feature, Red Rooms, was officially selected at the Karlovy-Vary Film Festival and Fantasia 2023. A graduate of Concordia University, he has written and directed numerous short films, including Blue-Eyed Blonde (Best Canadian Short, VIFF 2015), Nonna (Slamdance 2017) and BLAST BEAT (Slamdance 2019). His debut feature, Fake tattoos, won the Grand Prix Focus Québec/Canada at FNC 2017 and was selected at the 2018 Berlinale. Nadia, Butterfly was officially selected at the Cannes Film Festival in 2020. Pascal describes himself as a cinephile turned fiction filmmaker with documentary tendencies.
Photo: Danny Taillon, Courtesy of Entract Films
