Amulette Garneau
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Female
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Backyard Theatre
Overview: Backyard Theatre is a documentary about playwright Michel Tremblay and director André Brassard’s flavourful brand of Quebec theatre, which captured the earthy wit and joual (slang) of Montreal's East End working-class neighbourhood. The film features impromptu improvisation by the cast of Les belles-soeurs and Demain matin, Montréal m'attend, two genre-defining plays.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Angelo, Fredo, and Romeo
Overview: Fredo just inherited his uncle's company but it bores him. Then he meets Angelo, a French movie director that introduces to the magical world of feature films. Suddenly, Fredo sees himself in different films. Soon, Fredo discovers that Angelo has a hidden agenda...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-26
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Once Upon a Time in the East
Overview: Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and has decided to present himself as Cleopatra. Of the two women, one was just fired from her waitressing job and seeks to go back to work at the nightclub where the beauty pageant is to be held. The other woman's mother has just won one million food stamps.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-26
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Parlez-nous d'amour
Overview: A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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Maria Chapdelaine
Overview: A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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The Heart Exposed
Overview: When 24 year old apiring actor Mathieu meets and falls for 39 year old Jean-Marc who has just ended a seven year relationship, things are not all roses. In addition to their age difference there's the matter of Mathieu's five year old son from a previous marriage.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-03
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Les années de rêves
Overview: Continuing a saga that began with his previous, 1978 film, Vautours director Jean-Claude Labrecque returns with the French Canadian, Louis Pelletier and puts him in the context of the growing separatist movement in the late 1960s in Quebec. At that time, supporters of an independent Quebec began to consolidate their power under the Parti Québecois -- and the story of Louis and his wife Claudette are meant to illustrate this watershed in Quebec's history. As the film begins, Claudette and Louis are about to get married -- and their wedding day significantly coincides with preparations for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II. Years later, they are well-established in Montreal and are enjoying visits from their family -- and then their lives start to deteriorate. Louis is suddenly out of work, and as he faces the difficulties of finding another job -- and of living precariously -- he becomes more radical, less accepting of the status quo.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-18
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Les vautours
Overview: Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte). Still, he has hopes of some sort of legacy and believes that his relatives will help him find a job. All his hopes are dashed when, before the funeral, his three aunts come to Quebec City to settle their sister's estate. As grasping and efficient a crew as ever strode a parlor, by the time they leave, the estate has been cleaned to the bones, as if by vultures.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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Trois fois passera
Overview: The story, in three stages, of a friendship between three guys. They have taken different paths, but find themselves equally faced with the failure of their lives. The parody is not exempt from what remains a fine analysis of behavior and environment. For these three Quebecers are, in a way, us, as we have been rendered by a society in search of itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-02
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Taureau
Overview: A family that does not conform to the social norms of a small village must suffer the intolerance of the other villagers when the mentally-challenged son falls in love with the schoolteacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Night Zoo
Overview: Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against him) for drug money he's alleged to possess.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-01
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Françoise Durocher, Waitress
Overview: Fictional character played by 24 different actresses, Françoise Durocher is altogether small time waitress, hostess and barmaid. Together, according to the author, they represent the archetypical Québec waitress that everyday waits on us with a smile, despite whatever problems she faces in her personal life. First cinematographic experience of the Brassard-Tremblay tandem, this film full of ironic joy details all the nuances of the waitress living conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Les aventures d'une jeune veuve
Overview: A widow must cope with her late husband's associates, crooked Japanese businessmen who want her shares of a rich Northern Quebec land and a Jewish con man who wants to get a hand of her mysterious synthetic fur coat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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The Time of the Hunt
Overview: A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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Les grands enfants
Overview: Les Grands Enfants does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change : people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships. The film is set in Montreal.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-24
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The Plouffe Family
Overview: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-07
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Des fleurs sur la neige
Overview: Beaten and live an unimaginably difficult childhood, Elisa Trudel and her sister Madeline Trudel still have hope in their heart. Beaten both by their heartless mother. Their mother that this remarried with another man after their father died of a heart attack. Day after day, Elisa and Madeline overcomes the challenges and they discovers the key to be happy, is love. Based on a true story happened in the 70s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-07
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Kamouraska
Overview: A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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Orders
Overview: A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-27
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Sainte Carmen de la Main
Overview: A TV film staging of Michel Tremblay's play "Sainte Carmen de la Main" by André Brassard.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Le grand jour
Overview: A day in the life of two Québec families reunited for their children's wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-29
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