Screening Dates
  • November 9, 2017 8:25
Free Admission

The second feature from Swiss-born Léa Pool (Emporte-moi), who emerged as one of Québécois cinema’s boldest new talents in the 1980s, is a rumination on cinema, identity, loneliness, and desire in the European mode of Marguerite Duras—or Bergman’s Persona. It is set in a Montreal hotel, where Andréa (Paule Baillargeon), a filmmaker suffering from creative block, becomes obsessed with Estelle (Louise Marleau), a mysterious woman she encounters in the hallways. Marthe Turgeon plays the actress cast in the lead of Andréa’s stalled project. The identities of all three women intermingle, and life and art begin to imitate each other, as Pool’s stylish modernist drama unfolds. The film won Best Canadian Feature honours at TIFF and earned Marleau the Genie for Best Actress.