Souterrain
Quebec’s Sophie Dupuis will have sophomore feature Souterrain ready for 2020, produced by Etienne Hansez from Montreal’s Bravo Charlie and backed by Sodec, Telefilm Canada and the Harold Greenberg Fund. Returning to her native Val d’Or, Dupuis reunites with her 2018 Chien de Garde (Family First) star Théodore Pellerin with a cast consisting of Joakim Robillard, James Hyndman, Guillaume Cyr, Catherine Trudeau, Mickael Gouin, Chantal Fontaine, Bruno Marcil, Jean L’Italien, Lauren Hartley, Jean-Francois Boudreau, Maxime Genois, Charles-Aubey Houde and Sebastien Leblanc.…...
Quebec’s Sophie Dupuis will have sophomore feature Souterrain ready for 2020, produced by Etienne Hansez from Montreal’s Bravo Charlie and backed by Sodec, Telefilm Canada and the Harold Greenberg Fund. Returning to her native Val d’Or, Dupuis reunites with her 2018 Chien de Garde (Family First) star Théodore Pellerin with a cast consisting of Joakim Robillard, James Hyndman, Guillaume Cyr, Catherine Trudeau, Mickael Gouin, Chantal Fontaine, Bruno Marcil, Jean L’Italien, Lauren Hartley, Jean-Francois Boudreau, Maxime Genois, Charles-Aubey Houde and Sebastien Leblanc.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Yesterday, the Quebecker section of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television revealed its full list of nominees at the 2010 Gémeaux Awards, the Quebecker equivalent of the Emmy Awards. Moreover, the award ceremony will be held in September. The following is a list of nominees mostly related to the entertainment sector of Quebecker television.
Best dramatic series:
* Aveux.
* C.A.
* Le Gentleman.
* Mirador.
* Musée Eden.
Best game show:
* Bluff.
* L'union fait la force.
* Le cercle
* Le moment de vérité.
* Tous pour un.
Best reality show:
* En route vers mon premier gala.
* Loft Story 6 - La revanche.
* Ma maison Rona.
* Rock n’Road II.
* VJ recherché.
Best comedy series:
* La galère.
* Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin.
* Les Parent.
* Rock et Rolland.
* Taxi 0-22.
Best soap opera:
* Destinées
* L'auberge du chien noir
* Providence
* Yamaska
Best humour show:
* 3600 secondes d'extase
* Comicographie
* Et Dieu créa... Laflaque
* Infoman
* Les appendices
Best direction in a dramatic series:
* Aveux.
Best dramatic series:
* Aveux.
* C.A.
* Le Gentleman.
* Mirador.
* Musée Eden.
Best game show:
* Bluff.
* L'union fait la force.
* Le cercle
* Le moment de vérité.
* Tous pour un.
Best reality show:
* En route vers mon premier gala.
* Loft Story 6 - La revanche.
* Ma maison Rona.
* Rock n’Road II.
* VJ recherché.
Best comedy series:
* La galère.
* Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin.
* Les Parent.
* Rock et Rolland.
* Taxi 0-22.
Best soap opera:
* Destinées
* L'auberge du chien noir
* Providence
* Yamaska
Best humour show:
* 3600 secondes d'extase
* Comicographie
* Et Dieu créa... Laflaque
* Infoman
* Les appendices
Best direction in a dramatic series:
* Aveux.
- 6/17/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
While Xavier Dolan's Les amours imaginaires and Noah Pink's ZedCrew are competing at the Cannes Film Festival, other Canadian films will be looking for distributors. Now, let's have a look at the Canadian presence at the 2010 Cannes Film Market.
2 fois une femme
Director: François Deslile
Starring: Evelyne Rompré, Marc Béland, Étienne Laforge, David Boutin, Michelle Rossignol, Marie Brassard, Alexandre Goyette, Catherine de Léan and Brigitte Pogonat
After having her life threatened by her violent husband one night, Catherine heads for northern Quebec with her son under another identity. Slowly, she rebuilds her confidence and rediscovers who she is while trying to win over her son’s affection.
Stained
Director: Karen Lam
Starring: Tinsel Korey, Sonja Bennett, Steph Song, Anna Mae Routledge and Stephen Lobo
When Isabelle’s former lover suddenly appears at her shabby bookstore, she is elated and they resume their relationship. Her protective foster sister, Jennifer,...
2 fois une femme
Director: François Deslile
Starring: Evelyne Rompré, Marc Béland, Étienne Laforge, David Boutin, Michelle Rossignol, Marie Brassard, Alexandre Goyette, Catherine de Léan and Brigitte Pogonat
After having her life threatened by her violent husband one night, Catherine heads for northern Quebec with her son under another identity. Slowly, she rebuilds her confidence and rediscovers who she is while trying to win over her son’s affection.
Stained
Director: Karen Lam
Starring: Tinsel Korey, Sonja Bennett, Steph Song, Anna Mae Routledge and Stephen Lobo
When Isabelle’s former lover suddenly appears at her shabby bookstore, she is elated and they resume their relationship. Her protective foster sister, Jennifer,...
- 5/12/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
For the winter period, Radio-Canada, a French Canadian public TV network, had nothing serious to offer to us. While Mirador, a show created by Daniel Thibault and Isabelle Pelletier, looks full of promises because of its premise, it sinks quickly into doltishness.
First of all, Mirador is the name of a public relation firm from Montreal headed by Richard Racine (Gilles Renaud). In each episode, a client comes to see Mirador's crisis management team led by Philippe Racine (Patrick Labbé). Obviously, the mandate of Philippe's team is to rebuild the tarnished image of Mirador's given client. Besides working, Philippe also has to deal with the jaleousy of his older brother, Luc (David La Haye), who wants to head the crisis management team so badly or his ex-girlfriend, Véronique (Pascale Bussières), who is now engaged to Carl Imbeault (Sébastien Delorme), a former athlete turned into a TV personality.
First of all, Mirador is the name of a public relation firm from Montreal headed by Richard Racine (Gilles Renaud). In each episode, a client comes to see Mirador's crisis management team led by Philippe Racine (Patrick Labbé). Obviously, the mandate of Philippe's team is to rebuild the tarnished image of Mirador's given client. Besides working, Philippe also has to deal with the jaleousy of his older brother, Luc (David La Haye), who wants to head the crisis management team so badly or his ex-girlfriend, Véronique (Pascale Bussières), who is now engaged to Carl Imbeault (Sébastien Delorme), a former athlete turned into a TV personality.
- 5/9/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Alliance Vivafilm, a film distributor, announced ([1] and [2]) that L'enfant prodige (aka André Mathieu - Le dernier des romantiques) will have a world premiere on May 9 in Shanghai during the Expo 2010 Shanghai. Afterwards, L'enfant prodige will hit theatres in Quebec on May 28, 2010.
The biopic about Canadian pianist André Mathieu (1929-1968) was produced with a budget of $6 million by Daniel Louis (Les invasions barbares) and Denise Robert (Maurice Richard). It was directed and written by Luc Dionne.
The story follows André Mathieu (Guillaume Lebon plays the child and Patrick Drolet, the adult), a Montreal-born pianist who was described as the "Canadian Mozart" during his childhood. Because of his talent, he will travel in Europe in order to study piano with different great teachers like Arthur Honneger (Marc Béland) and Jacques de la Presle (Patrice Coquereau) just to name a few. Moreover, André Mathieu will also come across Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninov (Itzhak Finzi...
The biopic about Canadian pianist André Mathieu (1929-1968) was produced with a budget of $6 million by Daniel Louis (Les invasions barbares) and Denise Robert (Maurice Richard). It was directed and written by Luc Dionne.
The story follows André Mathieu (Guillaume Lebon plays the child and Patrick Drolet, the adult), a Montreal-born pianist who was described as the "Canadian Mozart" during his childhood. Because of his talent, he will travel in Europe in order to study piano with different great teachers like Arthur Honneger (Marc Béland) and Jacques de la Presle (Patrice Coquereau) just to name a few. Moreover, André Mathieu will also come across Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninov (Itzhak Finzi...
- 3/31/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Now that CBC had unveiled its winter 2010 schedule grid, Radio-Canada, the French-language sister channel of CBC, is now doing the same thing through TV spots. The story of this very anticipated TV series is about a public relation firm offering help for people who are stuck in a scandal.
When scandals break, things get out of control and media storms start raging, it’s time to bring in the firm’s top-notch crisis management team, led by Philippe Racine. With every episode centring on a scandal, Philippe and his team are assigned the difficult task of bolstering the client’s tarnished image and using every trick in the public relations book to help him triumph in the court of public opinion, come hell or high water. At the same time, Philippe is at a turning point in his own life, desperately seeking to find meaning in his work.
The...
When scandals break, things get out of control and media storms start raging, it’s time to bring in the firm’s top-notch crisis management team, led by Philippe Racine. With every episode centring on a scandal, Philippe and his team are assigned the difficult task of bolstering the client’s tarnished image and using every trick in the public relations book to help him triumph in the court of public opinion, come hell or high water. At the same time, Philippe is at a turning point in his own life, desperately seeking to find meaning in his work.
The...
- 12/7/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Tar Angel
Opening with a brief gloomy scene in a mosque and centered on an immigrant family from Algeria, "Tar Angel" (L'Ange de goudron) is a film with a serious message that was not lost on the opening-night audience of the 25th Montreal World Film Festival. To be released here by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm early next month, the French-language "Angel" should immigrate to more festivals and possibly find appreciative audiences in Europe.
The second sobering feature from writer-director Denis Chouinard ("Clandestins"), "Angel" features French-Algerian actor Zinedine Soualem as a man who has brought his family to Montreal, but the immigration process is not complete and the involvement of his son Hafid (Rabah Ait Ouyaha) in a group of militant activists threatens to derail their collective dream.
The clash of cultures and generations is down to minor skirmishes, but Ahmed (Soualem) is still angry and scared when he discovers the secrets of Hafid, which include a tattoo-artist girlfriend, Huguette (Catherine Trudeau). The two young lovers belong to a group called Crisco, "comrades in crisis," that tries to stop condo-building projects with lively street protests and attempts more dangerous covert operations, such as deleting government computer files on immigrants facing deportation. After one such scheme is somewhat botched, Hafid disappears.
It's the unfeeling, barely tolerant attitude of the authorities toward desperate newcomers that inspires Hafid to join in a risky snatching of passports from officials at a government-controlled airport. Successful or not, the scheme involving a snowmobile raid on the tarmac is gradually uncovered by Ahmed and Huguette, who have joined forces to look for Hafid in the wintry wilds of Quebec.
Indeed, Hafid is offscreen for a long stretch, and the scenario concentrates on the searchers. More mature than she seems at first, Huguette says convincingly that she truly loves Hafid, while Ahmed risks losing his job and tests his faith by following her lead. There are moments of light humor involving snowmobiles, but the heavy-hitting finale has a few too many loose ends that somewhat diminish the largely believable film.
The performances, including Hiam Abbas as Hafid's mother, are engaging, and the cinematography of Guy Dufaux ("Jesus of Montreal") is excellent. The use of Middle Eastern music works very well with the snowy landscapes. Most importantly, although guilty of a few shortcuts and improbabilities, "Tar Angel" -- the title referring to Ahmed and his blacktopping job -- makes its points and comes to swift conclusion.
TAR ANGEL
Max Films
Screenwriter-director: Denis Chouinard
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Director of photography: Guy Dufaux
Production designer: Mario Hervieux
Editor: Richard Comeau
Costume designer: Denis Sperdouklis
Music: Bertrand Chenier
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ahmed: Zinedine Soualem
Hafid: Rabah Ait Ouyaha
Huguette: Catherine Trudeau
Running time -- 99 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The second sobering feature from writer-director Denis Chouinard ("Clandestins"), "Angel" features French-Algerian actor Zinedine Soualem as a man who has brought his family to Montreal, but the immigration process is not complete and the involvement of his son Hafid (Rabah Ait Ouyaha) in a group of militant activists threatens to derail their collective dream.
The clash of cultures and generations is down to minor skirmishes, but Ahmed (Soualem) is still angry and scared when he discovers the secrets of Hafid, which include a tattoo-artist girlfriend, Huguette (Catherine Trudeau). The two young lovers belong to a group called Crisco, "comrades in crisis," that tries to stop condo-building projects with lively street protests and attempts more dangerous covert operations, such as deleting government computer files on immigrants facing deportation. After one such scheme is somewhat botched, Hafid disappears.
It's the unfeeling, barely tolerant attitude of the authorities toward desperate newcomers that inspires Hafid to join in a risky snatching of passports from officials at a government-controlled airport. Successful or not, the scheme involving a snowmobile raid on the tarmac is gradually uncovered by Ahmed and Huguette, who have joined forces to look for Hafid in the wintry wilds of Quebec.
Indeed, Hafid is offscreen for a long stretch, and the scenario concentrates on the searchers. More mature than she seems at first, Huguette says convincingly that she truly loves Hafid, while Ahmed risks losing his job and tests his faith by following her lead. There are moments of light humor involving snowmobiles, but the heavy-hitting finale has a few too many loose ends that somewhat diminish the largely believable film.
The performances, including Hiam Abbas as Hafid's mother, are engaging, and the cinematography of Guy Dufaux ("Jesus of Montreal") is excellent. The use of Middle Eastern music works very well with the snowy landscapes. Most importantly, although guilty of a few shortcuts and improbabilities, "Tar Angel" -- the title referring to Ahmed and his blacktopping job -- makes its points and comes to swift conclusion.
TAR ANGEL
Max Films
Screenwriter-director: Denis Chouinard
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Director of photography: Guy Dufaux
Production designer: Mario Hervieux
Editor: Richard Comeau
Costume designer: Denis Sperdouklis
Music: Bertrand Chenier
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ahmed: Zinedine Soualem
Hafid: Rabah Ait Ouyaha
Huguette: Catherine Trudeau
Running time -- 99 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/8/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tar Angel
Opening with a brief gloomy scene in a mosque and centered on an immigrant family from Algeria, "Tar Angel" (L'Ange de goudron) is a film with a serious message that was not lost on the opening-night audience of the 25th Montreal World Film Festival. To be released here by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm early next month, the French-language "Angel" should immigrate to more festivals and possibly find appreciative audiences in Europe.
The second sobering feature from writer-director Denis Chouinard ("Clandestins"), "Angel" features French-Algerian actor Zinedine Soualem as a man who has brought his family to Montreal, but the immigration process is not complete and the involvement of his son Hafid (Rabah Ait Ouyaha) in a group of militant activists threatens to derail their collective dream.
The clash of cultures and generations is down to minor skirmishes, but Ahmed (Soualem) is still angry and scared when he discovers the secrets of Hafid, which include a tattoo-artist girlfriend, Huguette (Catherine Trudeau). The two young lovers belong to a group called Crisco, "comrades in crisis," that tries to stop condo-building projects with lively street protests and attempts more dangerous covert operations, such as deleting government computer files on immigrants facing deportation. After one such scheme is somewhat botched, Hafid disappears.
It's the unfeeling, barely tolerant attitude of the authorities toward desperate newcomers that inspires Hafid to join in a risky snatching of passports from officials at a government-controlled airport. Successful or not, the scheme involving a snowmobile raid on the tarmac is gradually uncovered by Ahmed and Huguette, who have joined forces to look for Hafid in the wintry wilds of Quebec.
Indeed, Hafid is offscreen for a long stretch, and the scenario concentrates on the searchers. More mature than she seems at first, Huguette says convincingly that she truly loves Hafid, while Ahmed risks losing his job and tests his faith by following her lead. There are moments of light humor involving snowmobiles, but the heavy-hitting finale has a few too many loose ends that somewhat diminish the largely believable film.
The performances, including Hiam Abbas as Hafid's mother, are engaging, and the cinematography of Guy Dufaux ("Jesus of Montreal") is excellent. The use of Middle Eastern music works very well with the snowy landscapes. Most importantly, although guilty of a few shortcuts and improbabilities, "Tar Angel" -- the title referring to Ahmed and his blacktopping job -- makes its points and comes to swift conclusion.
TAR ANGEL
Max Films
Screenwriter-director: Denis Chouinard
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Director of photography: Guy Dufaux
Production designer: Mario Hervieux
Editor: Richard Comeau
Costume designer: Denis Sperdouklis
Music: Bertrand Chenier
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ahmed: Zinedine Soualem
Hafid: Rabah Ait Ouyaha
Huguette: Catherine Trudeau
Running time -- 99 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The second sobering feature from writer-director Denis Chouinard ("Clandestins"), "Angel" features French-Algerian actor Zinedine Soualem as a man who has brought his family to Montreal, but the immigration process is not complete and the involvement of his son Hafid (Rabah Ait Ouyaha) in a group of militant activists threatens to derail their collective dream.
The clash of cultures and generations is down to minor skirmishes, but Ahmed (Soualem) is still angry and scared when he discovers the secrets of Hafid, which include a tattoo-artist girlfriend, Huguette (Catherine Trudeau). The two young lovers belong to a group called Crisco, "comrades in crisis," that tries to stop condo-building projects with lively street protests and attempts more dangerous covert operations, such as deleting government computer files on immigrants facing deportation. After one such scheme is somewhat botched, Hafid disappears.
It's the unfeeling, barely tolerant attitude of the authorities toward desperate newcomers that inspires Hafid to join in a risky snatching of passports from officials at a government-controlled airport. Successful or not, the scheme involving a snowmobile raid on the tarmac is gradually uncovered by Ahmed and Huguette, who have joined forces to look for Hafid in the wintry wilds of Quebec.
Indeed, Hafid is offscreen for a long stretch, and the scenario concentrates on the searchers. More mature than she seems at first, Huguette says convincingly that she truly loves Hafid, while Ahmed risks losing his job and tests his faith by following her lead. There are moments of light humor involving snowmobiles, but the heavy-hitting finale has a few too many loose ends that somewhat diminish the largely believable film.
The performances, including Hiam Abbas as Hafid's mother, are engaging, and the cinematography of Guy Dufaux ("Jesus of Montreal") is excellent. The use of Middle Eastern music works very well with the snowy landscapes. Most importantly, although guilty of a few shortcuts and improbabilities, "Tar Angel" -- the title referring to Ahmed and his blacktopping job -- makes its points and comes to swift conclusion.
TAR ANGEL
Max Films
Screenwriter-director: Denis Chouinard
Producers: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal
Director of photography: Guy Dufaux
Production designer: Mario Hervieux
Editor: Richard Comeau
Costume designer: Denis Sperdouklis
Music: Bertrand Chenier
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ahmed: Zinedine Soualem
Hafid: Rabah Ait Ouyaha
Huguette: Catherine Trudeau
Running time -- 99 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 8/27/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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