Jean-Pierre Cartier

Acting

Jean-Pierre Cartier

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Acting

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16 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 10 titles

Orders poster
7.3

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Orders

1974

Talk About Love poster
9.0

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.

Talk About Love

1976

The Apprentice poster
4.2

In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with a thin resume and no college units. He has a fiancée, Michelle, but his head is turned by a free-spirited model, from the U.S., who saw him being fired and comes to his flat to apologize. She's Elizabeth, a combination of feckless innocence and sexual freedom. Jean-Pierre borrows money from his outlaw friend, Dock, and buys clothes to impress Elizabeth. Soon he's sleeping with her, and he pulls a theft with Dock to get money to take her to Acapulco. Michelle tries to bring him back to her orbit. Is there a way out for Jean-Pierre?

The Apprentice

1971

Far Away From You, Darling poster
5.0

In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage.

Far Away From You, Darling

1976

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7.5

A dinner reunion of two childhood friends and their spouses turns into a disaster when they realize they have radically different lifestyles.

Une amie d'enfance

1978

Red the Half Breed poster
4.9

The illegitimate son of an Indian woman and a French Canadian man leaves home and is attacked when he tries to return.

Red the Half Breed

1970

Those Damned Savages poster
7.8

A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.

Those Damned Savages

1971

Q-Bec My Love poster
7.0

In this satire of sexuality in the entertainment industry and voyeurism, a woman maintains 3 romantic relationships simultaneously: with her husband, with her boss, and with her lover.

Q-Bec My Love

1970

Panique poster
6.0

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.

Panique

1977

L'exil poster
8.0

Summoned by his bosses to broadcast only neutral information, Jean, a reporter, leaves town with his friend to go and collect testimonies from simple people, in the heart of the Laurentians, and reach out to them and outside society at genuine freedom, happiness. The departure is joyous, but the isolation in which they confine themselves does not bring either of them the results they expected. The adventure ends in failure. Would it be an illusion to believe that one can escape the community to which one belongs?

L'exil

1972

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