Romance

ALEGRIA

A touching love story between busker Frac, whose love for the arts has been quashed by deep grief, and Giulietta. Frac instantly falls in love with Giulietta, but Fleur, the young girl’s father and circus ringmaster, interprets it differently.

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

SIÈGE DE L'ÂME, LE

In the late 19th century, in a sombre city worried about death, scientists desperately seek the means to immortalize the body. One of the scientists, Jules, is a young researcher who is something of a dreamer, and still believes, unlike all his colleagues, in the soul’s existence. But one day, in the heart of that city, a pyramid is discovered, buried under the road. And in the pyramid, there is a sarcophagus; and in the sarcophagus, a beribboned mummy. And, believe it or not, the mummy’s heart is still beating.

HANGING GARDEN, THE

Sweet William is a slim trim 25-year-old gay man who returns home after a bitter absence of ten years to celebrate his sister=s wedding in the family garden. Everything is pretty much as he left it. His drunken and abusive father Mac is still tending the flower garden and not his family, while his mother Iris suffers in guilt-ridden silence. His grandmother Grace is even more senile and obsessively religious, the dog is blind and his chain-smoking, foul mouthed sister Rosemary is as warm and boisterous as ever. Nothing has changed, except for Sweet William.

FISH TALE SOUP

FISH TALE SOUP is a romantic comedy about Vivi (Kathleen Laskey) and Paul (John Jarvis), a contemporary couple trying to have a child. Vivi works at the local pound where she feels that far too many animals are put down due to space constrictions. Because of government cutbacks, Paul's music therapy class for handicapped children is about to be phased out. Vivi and Paul's desperate attempts to conceive are putting a strain on their marriage. Into this melee steps Markus (Rémy Girard), the gentle giant of a refugee from nowhere.

CAREFUL

BYE BYE BLUES

WHY ROCK THE BOAT?

William Weintraub's romantic comedy, based on his novel of the same title, about the Montréal newspaper world of the 1940s. Stuart Gillard plays the innocent, bashful, yet ambitious young reporter, fresh from McGill, eager to move from academia into the mainstream of life and love. His initiation takes many an unexpected and hilarious turn.

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