
Production
Pierre Lamy
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.6In this French Canadian film, when the provincial government tries to move two young farmers from their land to make way for development, the two fight back, accidentally killing a policeman and becoming outlaws in the process.
The Wise Guys
1972
6.1A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
Gina
1975
5.3A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.
Happy Memories
1981
5.9A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
Kamouraska
1973
8.030-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings. One day, tired of being teased by her office mates, she decides to consult a marriage agency to find her soul mate.
The Late Blossom
1977
5.3Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and has decided to present himself as Cleopatra. Of the two women, one was just fired from her waitressing job and seeks to go back to work at the nightclub where the beauty pageant is to be held. The other woman's mother has just won one million food stamps.
Once Upon a Time in the East
1974
6.0Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three characters must define themselves in an enclosed space, a truck trapped in a snowstorm, and dream of somewhere else to find each other.
Contrecoeur
1983
7.1A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry.
Dirty Money
1972
6.2An acerbic and surreal comedy about marriage and married life.
For Better or For Worse
1975
6.2In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this oppressive universe, they created a parallel world: the institution's basement where, in a maze of tunnels, they founded an independent company, with its rituals, spells. A young girl, Agnes, reigns over this underground world that adults seem to tolerate.
The Lady of Colours
1985

