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  • Geneviève Dulude-De Celles – Une colonie AKA A Colony (2018) (HD)

    2011-2020CanadaDramaGeneviève Dulude-De Celles

    Quote:
    Colony is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles and released in 2018. The film centres on Mylia, a young girl starting high school who is torn between her new friendships with Jacinthe, a bad influence who encourages her to experiment with sex and alcohol, and Jimmy, an artistic First Nations student. The film’s cast also includes Irlande Côté as Mylia’s younger sister Camille, and Noémie Godin-Vigneau and Robin Aubert as their parents.
    Camille wanders through the countryside talking with frogs and chickens: she sails through life as a carefree soul. But for her older sister, the introverted Mylia, things are more complicated. Mylia is lost between the uncertainty in her family life, the superficial atmosphere at her new school and her first experiences at house parties. It is Camille who eventually introduces Mylia to Jimmy. The boy from the nearby Abenaki reserve is different and he encourages her to break free.Read More »

  • Jean Pierre Lefebvre – Les dernières fiançailles AKA The Last Betrothal (1973)

    1971-1980ArthouseCanadaCinema of QuebecDramaJean Pierre Lefebvre

    Quote:
    The sweet life of a couple together for seventy years. After another cardiac incident, Armand knows he doesn’t have much time left. But after all these years in the same house, he doesn’t want to die somewhere else. His wife Rose has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.Read More »

  • Karim Hussain – Subconscious Cruelty (2000)

    1991-2000ArthouseCanadaExperimentalKarim Hussain

    “Subconscious Cruelty” is divided in four segments: Ovarian Eyeball – a naked woman is sliced by a sharp blade and an eyeball is removed from her belly. Human Larvae – a deranged man that hates his sister that is pregnant kills her newborn offspring and she during the delivery. Rebirth – a group of naked people rolls around in mud and blood. Right Brain/Martyrdom – religious symbolism associated with gore and sex.Read More »

  • Ghyslaine Côté – Elles étaient cinq AKA The Five of Us (2004)

    2001-2010CanadaCrimeDramaGhyslaine Côté

    In Montreal, the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of Sophie’s parents nearby a lake, the girls decide to give a party, and Manon and Sophie hitch for a ride to the town in a jeep to buy some beers and supplies and they invite the driver to the party. On the return, the same driver stops the car and later Sophie is found stabbed, raped and covered of blood. Fifteen years later, Manon sees the guy in a car-wash and she invites her former friends to return to the house nearby the lake, where wounds of their traumatic loss are disclosed.Read More »

  • Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson & Guy Maddin – Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (2015)

    2011-2020CanadaDocumentaryEvan JohnsonGalen JohnsonGuy Maddin

    Quote:
    This stirring, anarchic behind-the-scenes look at Paul Gross’ Hyena Road uses everything from psychedelia to instructional videos to question both the validity of war movies and Canada’s mission in Afghanistan.Read More »

  • Denys Arcand – Le déclin de l’empire américain AKA The Decline of the American Empire (1986)

    1981-1990CanadaComedyDenys Arcand

    Quote:
    Sexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.

    Roger Ebert wrote:
    Here is a movie where everybody talks about nothing but sex, and the real subject is wit. The movie takes place during a little more than 24 hours in the lives of some friends, who either work in the history department of a Canadian university, or sleep with people who do. They meet for dinner, and as they prepare and eat the food and drink the wine, they talk and talk about sex. But if you listen carefully, you will find that their real subject is not sex, but verbal cleverness, and that their real passion comes in the area of intellectual competition.Read More »

  • Philippe Lesage – Genèse AKA Genesis (2018)

    Drama2011-2020CanadaPhilippe LesageQueer Cinema(s)

    Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.Read More »

  • Allan Moyle – Weirdsville (2007)

    2001-2010Allan MoyleCanadaComedyCrime

    Royce and Dexter are two slackers who live in the strange little town of Weedsville. When Royce’s girlfriend Matilda overdose’s on their stash and dies, they decide to bury her in an abandoned Drive-In theater. Things get out of control when they discover Satanists performing a ritual sacrifice right where they were going to bury the body…Read More »

  • Jean-Claude Lord – Visiting Hours (1982)

    1981-1990CanadaHorrorJean-Claude LordThriller

    Synopsis:
    Deborah Ballin is a controversial middle-aged TV journalist, who is campaigning on air on behalf of a battered woman who murdered her abusive husband, claiming justifiable defense against the so-called victim. But her outspoken views championing women’s rights incense one of the studio’s cleaning staff, closet homicidal psycho (and misogynist) Colt Hawker whose deep seated despising all all things female occurred from seeing his Mother throwing boiling oil in the face of his abusive Father when he was a small child (and who’s M.O. is to photograph victims he stabs as they’re spasming to death).Read More »

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