Mothers and Monsters
An elegant woman presides over a banquet whose increasingly surreal nature reflects ideals and anxieties about modern motherhood.
An elegant woman presides over a banquet whose increasingly surreal nature reflects ideals and anxieties about modern motherhood.
Mylène Mackay
Sarah Ouimette
Inès Defossé
Aline Winant
Arielle Fournier
Juliette Gariépy
Noémie Lanoix
Vincent Champagne
Dean J. Brisson
An elegant woman presides over a banquet whose increasingly surreal nature reflects ideals and anxieties about modern motherhood.
Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.
A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.
A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.
Husband does not understand his wife? Conflict with children? Do you want to be heard and stood in your place? Be afraid of your desires. In this family, everything changed places, including grandmother.
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.