Fair Sex
Fair Sex | |
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French | Les Manèges humains |
Directed by | Martin Laroche |
Written by | Martin Laroche |
Produced by | Martin Laroche |
Starring | Marie-Évelyne Lessard Marc-André Brunet Normand Daoust |
Cinematography | Félix Tétrault |
Edited by | Catherine Legault |
Music by | Thomas Hellman |
Production company | Productions Sisyphe |
Distributed by | K Films Amérique |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Fair Sex (French: Les Manèges humains) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Martin Laroche and released in 2012.[1]
The film stars Marie-Évelyne Lessard as Sophie, a young immigrant woman who has just graduated from film school. While working on her first film project she meets and develops a romantic interest in Frédéric (Marc-André Brunet), which brings up her own unresolved emotional trauma around having been a childhood victim of female genital mutilation.[2] The cast also includes , Stephanie Dawson, Alexandre Dubois and .
The film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2012, and was screened at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival and the Whistler Film Festival later in the year, before going into commercial release in early 2013.[3]
Lessard won the Borsos Competition award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film at Whistler.[4] The film received four Jutra Award nominations at the 16th Jutra Awards, for Best Actress (Lessard), Best Supporting Actor (Daoust), Best Screenplay (Laroche) and Best Original Music (Thomas Hellman).[5]
References[]
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Manèges humains, Les – Film de Martin Laroche". Films du Québec, January 31, 2013.
- ^ Normand Provencher, "Les manèges humains: carrousel d'émotions". Le Soleil, July 1, 2012.
- ^ "Les manèges humains à Montréal". La Presse, January 9, 2013.
- ^ Craig Takeuchi, "Whistler Film Festival 2012: Quebec's Marie-Evelyne Lessard dove into Fair Sex". The Georgia Straight, December 3, 2012.
- ^ Odile Tremblay, "Domination musclée de Louis Cyr aux nominations des Jutra". Le Devoir, January 28, 2014.
External links[]
- 2012 films
- French-language films
- 2012 drama films
- Canadian films
- Canadian drama films
- 2010s French-language films
- Black Canadian films
- Films set in Quebec
- Films shot in Quebec
- Films directed by Martin Laroche
- 2010s Canadian film stubs