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Canada
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 87 min.
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A fish tells us this story, a fish spawned from the aquatic magma dating from the beginning of the world. One rainy summer night, 25-year-old Bibiane Champagne hits a man with her car head on. The victim, a 53-year-old fishmonger, whom she abandons on the pavement, manages to get back home where he dies peacefully in his kitchen. But Bibiane's life degenerates into chaos. Just as she risks her life to erase any trace of her deed, she finds herself being given a second chance, a rebirth emanating from the waters of the river. This dialogue between life and death, between earth and water, will reach its conclusion when Bibiane meets the person who will alter her destiny.
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Script: Denis Villeneuve.
Phot.: Andr� Turpin.
Ed.: Richard Comeau.
Mus.: Pierre Desrochers.
Cast: Marie-Jos�e Croze, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, St�phanie Morgenstern, Virginie Dubois.
Prod.: Roger Frappier, Luc Vandal, Max Films Inc., Montr�al, Qu�bec (Canada), t�l.: (514) 282-8444, fax: (514) 282-9222, e-mail: [email protected].
Sales: Alliance Atlantis Pictures International, Toronto, Ontario (Canada), t�l.: (416) 967-1141, fax: (416) 967-1226.
Canadian Distributor: Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm.
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Denis Villeneuve
Born in Gentilly, Quebec in 1967, Denis Villeneuve studied cinema at the Universit� de Qu�bec � Montr�al and won first prize in the 1991 Course Europe-Asie TV filmmaking competition. He began making music videos and his first short, REW FFWD (1994) was shown in numerous international festivals (it won the special jury prize at Locarno). He directed the Technetium segment of the omnibus film COSMOS (1996) and made his solo feature debut with AUGUST 32ND ON EARTH (1998), which selected to be shown in the Cannes Festival. |
