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Bernard Émond is a veteran documentary filmmaker whose powerful work tends to address themes of loss, memory and the possibility of capturing fragments of truth. La femme qui boit, his stylish and finely acted debut narrative feature, is distinguished by a spectacular performance from Élise Guilbault in the title role and depicts the pain and confusion of a woman’s ruin after years of alcohol abuse.

Paulette (Guilbault) recounts her life from layers of interwoven memories beginning as an eighteen-year-old farm girl working in a factory in the thirties. When she catches the eye of an influential and wealthy man, she decides to pursue a life of ease. She becomes his mistress and he provides her with an apartment and other luxuries. However, Paulette eventually tires of being concealed in the shadows, and leaves her lover for Frank (Picard), a womanizing bartender. Although Frank is the love of her life, her happiness is only temporary and she begins to drink. In one powerful scene, Frank humiliates Paulette at a dinner with friends by promising another woman a mink coat if she strips for them. Even Paulette’s pregnancy fails to stop the downward spiral that her drinking brings about: although there are brief moments of happiness with her son, Frank’s departure causes her to hit rock bottom.

The screenplay, crafted by Émond, has the texture and detail of a novel, and his skillful direction subtly suggests the social and psychological factors that contribute to Paulette’s gradual downfall. Shot mostly in long takes, often with a hand-held camera, La femme qui boit focuses on small details and gestures, allowing silence and slow discovery to illuminate the life of a damaged woman living in a rigid society.

La femme qui boit was named one of Canada’s Top Ten of 2001 by an independent, ten-member national panel comprised of filmmakers, programmers, journalists and industry professionals.

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Doctor Rainville, an old country doctor who has a deep attachment to his patients, is about to retire and is looking for a successor. Jeanne Dion, an emergency doctor from Montréal, agrees to come to Normétal to replace him for a few weeks, without considering staying any longer than necessary in the remote Quebéc village. Normétal is a town in decline whose only large employer, a mine, closed three decades ago. Life is hard there, and a doctor’s relationship with his patients is much closer than Jeanne is used to after her experience in a large hospital’s emergency ward. When the old doctor dies, Jeanne must decide whether to stay and accept a responsibility that comes with much more commitment than she had planned on.

Normétal
Normétal is located at the northwestern end of the Abitibi region, 750 km from
Montréal. Built near a copper mine that was active from the late 1930s until 1975,
the village had 2,500 residents at its peak in the 1960s. Today its population is
about 1,000.

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Based on Chekhov’s revered novella, The Diary of an Old Man centers on a terminally ill emeritus professor of medicine who realizes how powerless he is to cure the unhappiness of his adopted daughter, whom he loves above all else.

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Pierre Leduc leaves his job as a university lecturer in an effort to escape the world, only to have his plans thwarted as two family members reach out to him: first, his dying father, who wants to leave him a fortune of ill-gotten gains, and then the young daughter whom he abandoned years ago.

Québécois cinema has often explored the bonds that keep us together, but rarely has the subject been addressed so elegantly or so powerfully. An obsessed scholar attempts to withdraw from the world but finds personal ties drawing him back into the family he had left behind, in this novelistic, beautifully modulated drama from acclaimed Québécois filmmaker Bernard Émond. Tout ce que tu possèdes is characterized by a meditative style, a novelist’s eye for detail and startlingly beautiful grace notes. @Tiff

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