a respectable woman Quebec filmmaker Bernard Émond’s new film will have its world premiere at 40e Munich Film Festival on June 28th.
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Bernard Émond and actress Hélène Florent will travel to Germany for the screening.
“We want to be discoverers of new films and new talents, international pearls and masters of the 7th art,” said the artistic director of the festival, Christoph Gröner, about the choice of titles for the 40th edition of the event.
Bernard Émond’s (The Novena, Against All Hope) ninth feature film, A Respectable Woman, is loosely inspired by a short story by Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. Hélène Florent plays a woman who has been separated from her husband for eleven years and, after the death of her concubine, agrees to take him home. She has to decide to live with him, but also with the three little girls he had with his second wife.
The film, which also stars Martin Dubreuil, Paul Savoie and Brigitte Lafleur, will hit theaters in Quebec on August 18.