Maelström


Release Information: August 29, 2000; Montréal (Impérial) (in competition) 09h00; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 29, 2000; Montréal (Impérial) (in competition) 09h00; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 29, 2000; Montréal (Impérial) (in competition) 09h00; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 29, 2000; Montréal (Impérial) (in competition) 09h00; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 29, 2000; Montréal (Impérial) (in competition) 09h00; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 29, 2000; Toronto (Visa Screening Room); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 29, 2000; Toronto (Visa Screening Room); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); August 29, 2000; Toronto (Visa Screening Room); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); 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Funding Sources: Telefilm Canada
Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC)

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Executive Producer: Roger Frappier; Roger Frappier; Roger Frappier; Roger Frappier; Roger Frappier; Roger Frappier; Roger Frappier; Roger Frappier

86 minutes, 1999

Drama

The story is told by a fish born from aquatic magma when the universe was first being formed. On a rainy summer evening, Bibiane Champagne, a 25-year-old woman, runs over a passerby. The victim, a 53-year-old fishmonger whom she abandons on the road, manages to make his way back home where he dies a gentle death. Bibiane's life is plunged into unimaginable chaos. After she risks her life to erase all evidence of her deed, she feels as if she has been given a second chance, as if she has been born a second time from out of the river waters. This dialogue between life and death, between earth and water, culminates when the young woman meets the man who will change her fate.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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Maelström Commentary

To be in a maelström means to be caught in a turbulent, often violent, situation. The word implies lack of control or direction in the midst of chaos. And this is certainly what has happened to the film’s main character Bibiane (Marie-José Croze)....

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