Sylvie Drapeau
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 10, 1962
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Gender: Female
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Borderline
Overview: Borderline, a film version of the novels Borderline and La Brèche, tells the story of Kiki at various stages of her life. With her mother institutionalized, she is raised by her grandmother, where left to her own devices, she takes refuge in school. Her life before 30 is a far cry from fairy-tale. Sex and alcohol are her only outlets and her daily reality. She goes through men one after another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Via crucis
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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Le Piège d'Issoudun
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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15 Février 1839
Overview: In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels are still in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, with three others. While they await their death the condemned spend time and consult with companions and loved ones as well as entrust to those their last wills. At dawn, the five Patriots will walk to the scaffold, knowing will they die.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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Résonance
Overview: An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease that turns her world upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-10
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The Three Madeleines
Overview: Three women who share a familial bond but little more come to know each other better in this beautifully-photographed drama. Marie-Madeleine (Sylvie Drapeau) is a photographer in her mid-30s who, for the first time, has come into contact with Mado (France Arbour), her biological mother, who put her up for adoption shortly after she was born. Marie-Madeleine is to take a long road trip for a magazine assignment, and she invites Mado along. Joining the two women is Marie-Madeleine's daughter (Isadora Galwey), who has yet to meet her German father. The three women share their thoughts and ideas as they travel through an idyllic setting to photograph birds. Les Fantomes des Trois Madeleine was shown at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors Fortnight series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-15
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The Barbarian Invasions
Overview: In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-24
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Nelly
Overview: A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan’s colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly’s alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked the literary world with her elegant writing and the lurid details of sex work in her autobiographical first novel, Whore, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller. Despite unprecedented success, Nelly’s remarkable life ended in tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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Le sphinx
Overview: A school teacher falls in love with a stripper/singer. He even leaves his wife and children for her. He soon spends a lot of time at the club where he works part-time as the M.C.. But the owner, a mobster, interferes in the relationship which brings fear and violence into the game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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Laughter
Overview: As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she’s in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she works as an orderly, she befriends Jeanne, an erudite and funny woman, dealing with an important physical handicap. Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, The Laugh presents a humane exploration of the survivor’s syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of being alive.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-31
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The Sex of the Stars
Overview: A 12-year-old girl faces a father she hardly remembers after his transition into a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-26
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Jesus of Montreal
Overview: A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-15
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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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