André Forcier gave the first crank turn of his 16th birthday on Mondaye career film, Aboinedwhich allows moviegoers to find themselves in the faubourg à m’lasse in Montreal in the 1950s.
The acclaimed filmmaker wants to “celebrate the cruelty of the child” in this feature film about seventh grade students who rebel to win back their poet teacher, a man who teaches them forgotten and invented words, as we stated in a press have release.
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This teacher was expelled from school because of his “anarchist ideas” and the children are doing everything in their power to allow the publication of his collection.
Ababouiné – the story of a boat stranded in the middle of the sea by a sudden calm – will be filmed for 33 days, ie until the end of August. For this contemporary film, Forcier stages the actors Miguel Bédard, Jean Boileau, Réal Bossé, Rémi Brideau, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Éric Bruneau, Hugolin Chevrette, Stéphane Crête, Christophe de Ruelle, Rémy Girard, Jean-Marie Lapointe, Stéphane Lécuyer and Simon Lefebvre , Charles-André Marchand, Émile Marcotte, Alejandro Moran, Noémie O’Farrell, Donald Pilon, Renaud Pinet-Forcier, Lilou Roy-Lanouette, Émile Schneider, Luc Senay and Maïla Valentir.
The 75-year-old director, who has feature films such as Coteau rouge, Albert’s United States and Le vent du Wyoming on his hit list, developed the original idea for Ababouiné and wrote the screenplay in collaboration with Jean Boileau, Laurie Perron, François Pinet-Forcier and Renaud Pinet forcer. Ababouiné is produced by Les Films du Paria in association with Max Films.