- Today, Sydney’s Possible Worlds: Canadian Film Festival kicks off, and it promises to be quite a week of cinema. It was a surprise to me to learn that it is the first Canadian Film Festival in Sydney as there has been an abundance of annual minor festivals of national cinema popping up over the last ten years. The festival will be taking place at the city’s recently revitalised art house cinema, the Chauvel. What really separates the Canadian Film Festival from other national cinema festival are the events lined up to accompany the program. The opening night film, Familia, a drama that won ‘Best Canadian First Feature’ at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, is being screened with a Q & A with director Louise Archambault. Archambault is also doing a Q & A with the festival’s program ‘Shorts: Award Winners’ as her short Atomic Sake
- 11/30/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
TORONTO -- Quebec films continued their dominance of the Canadian movie industry Wednesday as Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. picked up 12 nominations for the 2006 Genies, the nation's top film awards. C.R.A.Z.Y, a drama about a gay man coming of age in Catholic Quebec during the 1970s and Canada's Oscar contender in the best foreign-language category, brought Vallee nominations for best film, best direction and best original screenplay. Other Quebec contenders included Luc Picard's L'Audition, a drama about a bill collector who delves into his childhood to prepare for his first movie audition, and Louise Archambault's Familia. Both grabbed seven Genie nominations.
- 1/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Quebec films continued their dominance of the Canadian movie industry Wednesday as Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. picked up 12 nominations for the 2006 Genies, the nation's top film awards. C.R.A.Z.Y, a drama about a gay man coming of age in Catholic Quebec during the 1970s and Canada's Oscar contender in the best foreign-language category, brought Vallee nominations for best film, best direction and best original screenplay. Other Quebec contenders included Luc Picard's L'Audition, a drama about a bill collector who delves into his childhood to prepare for his first movie audition, and Louise Archambault's Familia. Both grabbed seven Genie nominations.
- 1/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Louise Archambault's Familia is a refreshing and insightful look at the relationships of two sets of three generations of women that contemplates the question of whether or not women are genetically bound to be like their mothers.
Steering well clear of soap opera, the film offers a slice of life that women will surely recognize and men would no doubt benefit from seeing. Only the lack of a clear point of view may keep it from having wide appeal.
Flighty aerobics instructor Michele (Sylvie Moreau), a single mother with a 14-year-old daughter, has a bad gambling habit that leaves her broke and homeless so she turns to her old friend Janine for help.
Janine (Macha Grenon) is an accomplished interior designer who has a beautiful home that she manages impeccably; overseeing her two children while her broadcaster husband is frequently away.
Michele's daughter Marguerite (Mylene St-Sauveur) is a free spirit like her mom while Janine's daughter Gabrielle (Juliette Gosselin) maintains a straight-laced demeanor to please her mom.
As Janine's brother is Marguerite's father and Michele's mother has a new boyfriend of her own, family gatherings are always an adventure but the kids calmly explain to their friends who's who.
Janine gives Michele a job and allows her old friend and her daughter to stay with her, but Michele's gambling habit gets worse and Janine's fussiness increases as she comes to believe that her husband is having an affair.
When the two daughters start to behave as adolescents will, Michele and Janine react in ways not dissimilar from how their own mothers respond when they turn to them for help.
The storyline is held together by a neat, if cruel, act of vengeance and there is much biting wit along the way. The acting is outstanding and the film suffers only from being book-ended by a speculative narration that leaves the drama unfulfilled.
Steering well clear of soap opera, the film offers a slice of life that women will surely recognize and men would no doubt benefit from seeing. Only the lack of a clear point of view may keep it from having wide appeal.
Flighty aerobics instructor Michele (Sylvie Moreau), a single mother with a 14-year-old daughter, has a bad gambling habit that leaves her broke and homeless so she turns to her old friend Janine for help.
Janine (Macha Grenon) is an accomplished interior designer who has a beautiful home that she manages impeccably; overseeing her two children while her broadcaster husband is frequently away.
Michele's daughter Marguerite (Mylene St-Sauveur) is a free spirit like her mom while Janine's daughter Gabrielle (Juliette Gosselin) maintains a straight-laced demeanor to please her mom.
As Janine's brother is Marguerite's father and Michele's mother has a new boyfriend of her own, family gatherings are always an adventure but the kids calmly explain to their friends who's who.
Janine gives Michele a job and allows her old friend and her daughter to stay with her, but Michele's gambling habit gets worse and Janine's fussiness increases as she comes to believe that her husband is having an affair.
When the two daughters start to behave as adolescents will, Michele and Janine react in ways not dissimilar from how their own mothers respond when they turn to them for help.
The storyline is held together by a neat, if cruel, act of vengeance and there is much biting wit along the way. The acting is outstanding and the film suffers only from being book-ended by a speculative narration that leaves the drama unfulfilled.
- 8/10/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Rolling out the lineup of Canadian films for the 30th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, organizers Tuesday announced world premieres for Thom Fitzgerald's 3 Needles and Beowulf & Grendel, the latest work from Sturla Gunnarsson. Also, short-filmmaker Louise Archambault's feature film debut, Familia, will open the second edition of Canada First, a showcase for emerging Canadian directors. 3 Needles stars Chloe Sevigny, Sandra Oh, Olympia Dukakis, Stockard Channing and Lucy Liu in a drama about AIDS that spans three continents. Beowulf & Grendel, a drama about a Norse hero's battle with a murderous monster loosely based on the ninth century Anglo-Saxon epic poem, is set for the festival's Special Presentations sidebar.
TORONTO -- Rolling out the lineup of Canadian films for the 30th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, organizers Tuesday announced world premieres for Thom Fitzgerald's 3 Needles and Beowulf & Grendel, the latest work from Sturla Gunnarsson. Also, short-filmmaker Louise Archambault's feature film debut, Familia, will open the second edition of Canada First, a showcase for emerging Canadian directors. 3 Needles stars Chloe Sevigny, Sandra Oh, Olympia Dukakis, Stockard Channing and Lucy Liu in a drama about AIDS that spans three continents. Beowulf & Grendel, a drama about a Norse hero's battle with a murderous monster loosely based on the ninth century Anglo-Saxon epic poem, is set for the festival's Special Presentations sidebar.
ROME -- Two more titles were added Wednesday to this year's lineup of films in competition for the Locarno International Film Festival's Golden Leopard prize. They are Canadian director Louise Archambault's Familia and Yvan Le Moine's Vendredi ou un Autre Jour, a Belgium-France-Italy co-production. The new titles join 15 others announced last week. Festival organizers also said that Susan Sarandon will be on hand to receive an excellence award and that the opening film in the Piazza Grande will be Ketan Mehta's The Rising -- Ballad of Mangal Pandey. The festival runs Aug. 3-13.
- 7/27/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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