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MARIAGES
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Canada 2001 / 35 mm / Color / 95 min. | |||
Quebec at the end of the 19th century. Yvonne, twenty, has her whole life ahead of her but she hasn't yet sorted out her feelings nor what exactly she wants to do. She is torn between her intense emotions and her love of nature on the one hand and the austere code of Victorian era behaviour on the other. Passion and strong sentiments are to be kept under wraps. Ever since her father Auguste's remarriage to No�mie, Yvonne has been living with her older sister H�l�ne, who is married to a notary and with whom she has had five children. H�l�ne is a soft-spoken woman who rules the household with authority. When Yvonne meets Charles, a client of her brother-in-law, she is smitten. She and Charles begin seeing each other surreptitiously. But H�l�ne has other plans for her younger sister, in particular a religious life. She has her sights set on Charles as a husband for her own daughter. The strange reappearance of Anastasie, her mother who had died at her birth, along with a dream by No�mie, disrupt Yvonne's world and thoroughly upset the order of her life. Things are spinning out of control. With the help of Maria a healer and the mysterious, curative powers of nature, Yvonne becomes conscious of her physical needs and desires. Despite the trying circumstances, perhaps even because of them, Yvonne discovers herself and the need to shape her own destiny. |
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| Script: Catherine Martin. Phot.: Jean-Claude Labrecque. Ed.: Lorraine Dufour. Mus.: Robert Marcel Lepage. Cast: Marie-�ve Bertrand, Guylaine Tremblay, H�l�ne Loiselle, Mirianne Br�l�, David Boutin, Markita Boies, Raymond Cloutier, Louise de Beaumont, Claude Despins, Gabriel Gascon. Prod.: Lorraine Dufour, Coop Vid�o de Montr�al, 1124, rue Marianne Est, Montr�al, Qu�bec H2J 3B7 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 521-5541, fax: (514) 521-0543, e-mail: [email protected] / Les Productions 23. Sales: Film Tonic, 5130, boul. Saint-Laurent, Bureau 400, Montr�al, Qu�bec H2T 1R8 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 272-4425, fax: (514) 274-0214, e-mail: [email protected]. Canadian Distributor: Film Tonic. | |||
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Catherine Martin After studying cinema and photography at Concordia University in Montreal, began her professional career as an assistant editor on such films as L�a Pool's LA FEMME DE L'H�TEL (1984) and Paul Tana's CAFF� ITALIA (1985). She then edited several documentaries, including VOYAGE EN AM�RIQUE AVEC UN CHEVAL EMPRUNT� by Jean Chabot. Her directorial filmography includes: Odile ou r�miniscences d'un voyage (1985), Nuits d'Afrique (1990), L'Ombre (1992), Les Fins de semaine (1995), Les Dames du 9e (1998). MARRIAGES marks her debut in features. |