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LA LOI DU COCHON
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Canada
2001 / 35 mm / Color / 95 min.
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St�phane Brousseau, 27, and her younger sister Bettie live in Saint-�douard, near the American border, tending to the pig farm that their recently deceased father has left them. Bettie is pregnant and the baby's father is supposedly a Canadian soldier serving with the UN peacekeepers in Kosovo. At least that's the story in the village. In fact Bettie is acting as a surrogate mother for a Chateauguay couple who can't conceive normally. But things aren't going so well for her older sister. St�phane is a compulsive gambler and has mortgaged the farm to cover her gambling debts. Now the bank is threatening to seize the farm's machinery and all its animals if she can't come up with some quick cash. St�phane's back is up against the barn wall. So she decides to divulge the existence of a marijuana crop that a would-be biker from the city has grown on her property. Not to the police but to a local gangster. But instead of quick cash she earns quick trouble. For herself, for her pregnant sister and for the childless couple from Chateauguay who never realized that surrogate motherhood could attract the mob.
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Script: Joanne Arseneau.
Phot.: J�r�me Sabourin.
Ed.: Jean-Fran�ois Bergeron.
Mus.: Dazmo.
Cast: Isabel Richer, Sylvain Marcel, Catherine Trudeau, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, St�phane Demers, Marie Brassard, Zhenhu Han.
Prod.: Jacques Bonin, Claude Veillet, Telefiction Vision 4, 4446, boulevard Saint-Laurent, 7e �tage, Montr�al, Qu�bec H2W 1Z5 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 499-0972, fax: (514) 844-5498, e-mail: [email protected].
Canadian Distributor: Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.
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�rik Canuel
�rik Canuel began his career by making music videos for such Quebec artists as Paul Pich�, Vilain Pingouin ad Sylvain Cossette. After shooting a number of TV commercials, he worked as a director on the Big Wolf on Campus television series for Fox and The Hunger for Showtime. His IMAX film Hemingway: A Portrait won the 2000 Genie for best documentary short. |
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