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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Manon Briand
Script :
Manon Briand
Photography :
James Gray
Editor :
Richard Comeau
Cast :
Charlotte Laurier, Dino Tavarone, Yves Pelletier, Louise Forestier, Andr� Brassard, Pascal Auclair, Jici Lauzon, France Galarneau, Alexis B�lec, Jude Antoine Jarda, Lorne Brass, Jessica MacKenzie, Mar
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2 SECONDS
Just moments before the start of a mountain-bike downhill, Laurie, a young racer, hesitates for a couple of seconds. That hesitation quickly turns into a retirement from the sport. She returns to Montreal, goes to live with her brother, a physicist who divides his time between hunting girlfriends and theorizing about relativity. Laurie attempts to assuage her need for speed by working as a bicycle courier downtown. By chance she comes across the bicycle shop of Lorenzo, a grumpy, Italian former cycling champion who now holes up in the back of his workshop installing wheels. Lorenzo takes an instant dislike to Laurie; this girl reminds him too much of himself. But Laurie is stubborn and keeps coming back for more. One evening they decide to face off in a peculiar conversational duel. Lorenzo shows Laurie how every triumph is relative and that, as with relativity, speed is not the only way to make time stand still.
Manon Briand
In 1987, after graduating in film from Concordia University in Montreal, Manon Briand went to France to study screenwriting. Returning home, she co-founded an independent filmmakers' group, Les Films de l'Autre, and soon began directing. She made her debut with Les Sauf-conduits (1991), a medium-length drama that went on to win prizes in Canada and Europe. She followed that with Croix de bois in 1992, and Picoti Picota in 1995, winner of three prizes at the Oberhausen Festival. She wrote and directed a segment of COSMOS (1997), which was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Festival and won the Prix international des cin�mas d'art et d'essai.
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