Isabelle Lavigne
Isabelle Lavigne's cinema is based on time and trust established with the characters. She is interested in dramatically rich microcosms that she explores in depth. With her films, she has established herself as one of the most original voices in Canadian documentary cinema, and her work is internationally renowned. How does our environment shape us? Who shaped the dreams we think are ours? What space is left to be ourselves? These questions underlie J.U.I.C.E: Join Us In Creating Excitement (1999), 4125, rue Parthenais (2001) and Junior (2007). In 2011, Isabelle Lavigne turned to a world of women and directed At Night They Dance. In this film, she maintains the same interest in the encounter between the social order and difference by interfering in a family of Oriental dancers who, through their profession, transgress the moral order.
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4125 Parthenais
A Romanian caretaker orchestrates arrivals and departures; she decides who will be allowed access to this noisy and anonymous building. Who lives at 4125 Parthenais? Primarily men, not so young anymore, most of them welfare recipients. People who have, out of frustration or by choice, withdrawn from the Capitalist society. A fallen suburbanite, a caretaker who thinks he’s an Earl, a gay Jehova’...
4125 Parthenais
A Romanian caretaker orchestrates arrivals and departures; she decides who will be allowed access to this noisy and anonymous building. Who lives at 4125 Parthenais? Primarily men, not so young anymore, most of them welfare recipients. People who have, out of frustration or by choice, withdrawn from the Capitalist society. A fallen suburbanite, a caretaker who thinks he’s an Earl, a gay Jehova’...
