Quebec cinema is having a quiet, brilliant year
Three new films from Montréal that London and Paris should already be talking about.
Without much warning — and on production budgets that would barely cover the catering on a French shoot — three Quebec directors have produced the most striking auteur cinema of the spring.
Sophie Dupuis returns with a single-location chamber piece set in a Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean kitchen over Christmas. Charles Officer's documentary on Africville is essential viewing. And the debut feature from a Saint-Henri editor named Léa Carrier is, simply, the best Canadian film of the decade so far.
All three open in Paris in May. Get tickets early.
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