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Time to Love, by Katell Quillévéré
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Vincent Lacoste and Anaïs Demoustier in Time to Love
“The Time to Love” begins brutally with archival images showing the shards of liberation before plunging painfully into fiction. Single mother Madeleine (Anaïs Demoustier) meets François (Vincent Lacoste), a middle-class student, in the hotel restaurant where she works as a waitress. Even though she reveals his son’s origins, Vincent wants to marry Madeleine. She soon realizes that her husband is hiding a dark secret from her. Inspired in part by her grandmother’s story and the great melodramas of Douglas Sirk (Time to Love and Time to Die), the director of “A Violent Poison” creates a cruel and powerful love story – against a backdrop of intolerance.
At the Imperial Cinema on November 3rd, 3 p.m. and November 4th, 8:15 p.m.
The Most Beautiful Thing for Dancing, by Victoria Bedos
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Brune Moulin and Philippe Katherine in “The Most Beautiful Thing to Dance”.
This charming sentimental comedy is the first feature film from one of the screenwriters of La famille Bélier, Éric Lartigau, and happily uses the codes of American teen comedies. Marie-Luce (Brune Moulin) follows the advice of her best friend Albert (Pierre Richard), an octogenarian homosexual, and dresses up as a boy to go to a costume party. But the unpopular teenager has great success with the girls… and with Émile (Loup Pinard), the boy she likes. Even if “La plus belle pour aller danser” does not reinvent the genre, it sensitively depicts the touching relationship between an abandoned father (Philippe Katherine) and his clever daughter.
In the Imperial Cinema on November 8th, 10 a.m. and in the Museum Cinema on November 9th, 5:30 p.m.
You’ll Never Know, by Robin Aubert
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They will never be able to provide convincing evidence of the health system’s shortcomings.
At the height of the pandemic, an old man locked in his room at CHSLD (Martin Naud) has only one idea on his mind: finding his beloved. As the hours slowly pass, only a volunteer (Sarah Keita) and a concierge (Jean-Marie Lapointe) bring him a bit of human warmth. In this radical and daring proposal, reminiscent of the cinema of Pedro Costa (En avant, jeunesse) and Robert Morin (Petit Pow! Pow! Noël), the director of At the Origin of a Cry provides a powerful testimony to the shortcomings of the health system. A perfect companion to the documentary “I Placed My Mother” by Denys Desjardins.
In the Imperial cinema on November 10th, 6 p.m. and in the Modern cinema on November 11th, 1:30 p.m.
Low season, by Stéphane Brizé
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Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher in the off-season
Mathieu (Guillaume Canet), film actor, and Alice (Alba Rohrwacher), piano teacher, fell in love 15 years ago. Mathieu comes from Paris to undergo thalassotherapy in a coastal town on the west coast of France and meets Alice again, married and mother of a teenager. Hors-saison is lulled and bathed in a gentle light by Vincent Delerm’s melancholic piano. It is based on sensitive dialogues that begin in a playful tone and eloquent silence. The great master of social dramas (The Law of the Market) signs an atypical sentimental comedy in which he revisits with the same tenderness the themes discussed in Mademoiselle Chambon.
In the museum cinema on November 10th, 8:15 p.m. and November 11th, 5:45 p.m.
I am France, by Sarah El Attar
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Je suis la France gives a voice to people who have lost a loved one at the hands of the police.
It’s not just in North America that people of color are victims of police brutality. In France, 20 to 30 people die every year as a result of violent arrests, and 80% of the victims are black or Arab. In this documentary with gorgeous black-and-white images, the director of Togaether, where she focused on the Muslim community in the United States, gives a voice to people who have lost a loved one at the hands of the police. To support her words, she also collects testimonies from young people who are constantly victims of racial profiling. Sad and disgusting.
In the museum cinema on November 11th, 6:30 p.m.
Cabaret cinema evening, great evening with short films from Quebec and the FEM series
PHOTO HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT, LA PRESSE ARCHIVE
Marianne Farley
In addition to feature film screenings, other activities also take place at Cinemania. Note a cinema-cabaret evening (November 2nd) presenting short films under the theme of Montreal Chronicles and the results of the cinema challenge: homages to American films reinterpreted in the style of French-speaking filmmakers. For the “Great Evening of Quebec Shorts” (November 3), Jason Béliveau, editor-in-chief of Séquences magazine and associate programmer, invites moviegoers to discover 11 Quebec short films in premieres in Montreal or Quebec. And the first four episodes of the FEM series, in which Lenni-Kim Lalande plays a young person questioning his gender identity in a musical drama by Maxine Beauchamp and Marianne Farley, will be shown (November 3rd).