Montréal Vu Par…


Release Information: November 8, 1991; Montréal; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

Budget: Budget: $4,000,000

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Executive Producer: Michel Houle; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Peter Sussman; Doris Girard; Doris Girard; Doris Girard; Doris Girard; Denise Robert

124 minutes, 1991

This film is in six parts produced by as many filmmakers. The film showcases the city through the eyes of characters who visit it, and live through and in it: a young adventure-seeking tourist; the painting of a mayor through the years; an old couple who separate during a hockey game; a pickpocketing customs officer; a pictogram expert; an amnesiac woman between life and death; and a lover and her memory of love's passion.

Six Canadian filmmakers have joined forces to offer a cinematic tribute to Montreal on the occasion of it's 350th birthday. Patricia Rosema leads off with a comedy in which a Toronto housewife on holiday speaks agonising French and looks for a sophisticated Montreal romance - but she drinks too much at a smart party, sits on a strawberry, and passes out in embarrassment as subtitles to party chatter float through her head. Jacques Leduc follows with a mediation on historical amnesia, tracing the life of a painting of Jacques Viger, the first mayor of Montreal. Michel Brault juxtaposes two rituals, one public (a hockey game at the Forum), the other personal (the end of a middle aged couple's marriage). As the crowd roars, the woman walks away, down empty stadium halls to start a new life. Atom Egoyan conjures a Montreal where language seems to have been abolished and communication now exists only as a series of ever more demented signs, signals and pictograms. Léa Pool rides through the deserted canyons of corporate Montreal in the back of an ambulance, as she recounts the last moments in the life of a car crash victim. And finally, Denys Arcand speaks to us of obsessive erotic memories from a tropical Canadian embassy party, where a middle aged woman weaves a tall tale of her excessive amorous exploits in Montreal in the winter of 1967.

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

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