<  UNE JEUNE FILLE À LA FENÊTRE   Canada 2001 / 35 mm / Color / 91 min. Marthe, in her twenties, leaves the countryside and heads for the city. Born with a debilitating heart problem, she turns her back on the comfortable cocoon of her mother's home to taste the charms of urban life in 1925. She promises to marry her recently widowed neighbour in exchange for the money she will need to take piano lessons in the city. The city, with its modern pace and freedom, captures Marthe's heart instantly. At last she is free from the worries and pity of her family and everyone who has known her in her rural milieu. She is free to re-invent herself, to live whatever is left of her life without simply waiting to die. She convinces herself she can postpone the inevitable. She meets Genevi�ve, a musician her own age who introduces Marthe into the circle of her artistic friends. In the company of her new bohemian acquaintances, Alfred, Paul and C�cile, she begins to taste pleasures she had never known: she smokes, she drinks and she dances. She also discovers jazz, especially in the person of a musician named Oliver Scott. She also discovers prejudice. Oliver is black and her affair with him alienates her from some of her best friends. Marthe's accelerated life style soon begins to take its toll. When Oliver takes his group back on the road to tour the United States, she is faced with some hard decisions. Script:  Marcel Beaulieu, Francis Leclerc, Marie-Jos�e Bastien, Nathalie Th�ocharid�s.    Phot.:  Steve Asselin.    Ed.:  Glenn Berman.    Mus.:  Pierre Duchesne.    Cast:  Fanny Mallette, Hughes Frenette, Evelyne Rompr�, Daniel Parent, Louis-David Morasse, Richard Fagon, Rosa Zacharie, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Denis Bernard, Richard Frechette, Diane Dufresne.    Prod.:  Barbara Shier, Palomar, 812, rue Gilford, Montr�al, Qu�bec H2J 1N9 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 526-4766, fax: (514) 526-3517, e-mail: [email protected].    Sales:  Alliance Atlantis, 121 Bloor Street East, Suite 1500, Toronto, Ontario (Canada), t�l.: (416) 967-1174, fax: (416) 960-0971, e-mail: [email protected].    Canadian Distributor:  Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.    Francis Leclerc Born in Quebec City in 1971, Francis Leclerc studied communicatiosn and developed an early interest in filmmaking. Since 1995 he has worked in the Montreal film industry, directing music videos for many well-known Quebec artists. During the past decade he directed more than twenty short and medium-length films, including: Bient�t novembre (1995), L'Angle mort d'une hirondelle (1996), Les Sept Branches de la rivi�re Ota (1997) and Avec ou sans Marie (1997). UNE JEUNE FILLE � LA FEN�TRE marks his debut in features.

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