Jean-Philippe Desrochers
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This feature film, made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the joining of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN, FTQ, CEQ), is a cinematic essay by socially engaged filmmaker Gilles Groulx. Set against the backdrop of the 1970 October Crisis, the film is a frontal assault - denouncing a “consumer society” viewed as the ultimate embodiment of evil.
Hell No Longer
Through a tragic event on a construction site in Montreal, the filmmaker addresses the physical, psychological and social deaths of the Quebec worker, resulting from his working conditions and his dispossession. Construction workers denounce their working and living conditions in Montreal. Produced by the CSN, in tune with its times, this political film is a testament to Lamothe's activist film...
Les désoeuvrés
À la fin de la Grande Noirceur au Québec, quatre ados d’un village des Laurentides partent en exploration dans les bois avec le camion de l’oncle de deux d’entre eux.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
In February 1974, Yves Montand decides to sing at the Olympia for Chilean refugees in France. He has not performed live since 1968 and has only twelve days to get ready. Montand moves to his home in Auteuil with his pianist and 30-year-old sidekick, Bob Castella.
Route One/USA
Après dix ans d'exil volontaire, Robert Kramer, chantre de la contre-culture américaine et figure majeure du cinéma indépendant, revient aux États-Unis. Pendant six mois, entre 1987 et 1988, il entreprend un voyage de retour en suivant la route numéro 1 qui traverse du nord au sud le pays en longeant la côte est. Dans un mélange de documentaire et de fiction typique au réalisateur, Kramer repre...
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This feature film, made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the joining of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN, FTQ, CEQ), is a cinematic essay by socially engaged filmmaker Gilles Groulx. Set against the backdrop of the 1970 October Crisis, the film is a frontal assault - denouncing a “consumer society” viewed as the ultimate embodiment of evil.
Hell No Longer
Through a tragic event on a construction site in Montreal, the filmmaker addresses the physical, psychological and social deaths of the Quebec worker, resulting from his working conditions and his dispossession. Construction workers denounce their working and living conditions in Montreal. Produced by the CSN, in tune with its times, this political film is a testament to Lamothe's activist film...
Les désoeuvrés
À la fin de la Grande Noirceur au Québec, quatre ados d’un village des Laurentides partent en exploration dans les bois avec le camion de l’oncle de deux d’entre eux.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
In February 1974, Yves Montand decides to sing at the Olympia for Chilean refugees in France. He has not performed live since 1968 and has only twelve days to get ready. Montand moves to his home in Auteuil with his pianist and 30-year-old sidekick, Bob Castella.
Route One/USA
Après dix ans d'exil volontaire, Robert Kramer, chantre de la contre-culture américaine et figure majeure du cinéma indépendant, revient aux États-Unis. Pendant six mois, entre 1987 et 1988, il entreprend un voyage de retour en suivant la route numéro 1 qui traverse du nord au sud le pays en longeant la côte est. Dans un mélange de documentaire et de fiction typique au réalisateur, Kramer repre...
