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SEASON FINALE FILM & PARTY
June 6, 2012
Season Finale Film & Party
Film showing at 7:30 PM only followed by a catered reception
Tickets for non-members – $20 (sold at the door).
A complimentary ticket for the Season Finale Film & Party is included with all new QFA memberships for 2012-2013 purchased at QFA screenings in May.
STARBUCK
(Canada, 2011 – Rated 14A – 109 min – subtitled)
Directed by Ken Scott
Cast: Patrick Huard, Julie Le Breton, Antoine Bertrand
Starbuck Trailer
A Gala Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival®, and runner-up for the Cadillac People’s Choice Award, Starbuck is from writer-director Ken Scott (Seducing Dr. Lewis [QFA 2004]), The Rocket) and is inspired by a true story. Scott’s funny and endearing Quebecois comedy is an extraordinary adaptation of a tale of a legendary bull that fathered hundreds of thousands of offspring through artificial insemination. (more…)
CAFE DE FLORE
May 9, 2012 at 2:00pm + 7:30pm
(Canada, 2011 – Rated 14A – 120 min – subtitled)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent
Jean-Marc Vallée, one of Canada’s most com-pelling filmmakers, returned to the Toronto International Film Festival® this year with a Special Presentation of his film, Café de flore – arguably his most personal to date. Following Film Circuit favourites C.R.A.Z.Y. and his British period drama, The Young Victoria, Vallée returns to French-language filmmaking with this unconventional love story in which two narratives are rhythmically woven together to create a tale of emotion and destiny.
Set in present-day Montreal, the first story focuses on Antoine (Kevin Parent), a suc-cessful DJ and divorced father of two girls who is wildly infatuated with his girlfriend Rose (Evelyne Brochu, Polytechnique). How-ever, Antoine still has extremely strong ties to his ex, Carole (Hélène Florent), and it’s evi-dent they are not entirely over one another. Carole harbours a secret belief that Antoine will return to her, as their eldest daughter torments her father by blaring her parents’ defining love song at every opportunity.
The second story takes place in Paris in 1969. Jacqueline (Vanessa Paradis, Heartbreaker) is the fiercely devoted single mother of Laurent, a young boy with Down syn-drome. With her son’s life expectancy limited to 25 years, Jacqueline dedicates every spare moment to enriching and prolonging his life. Their days are rituals of school drop-offs, affectionate kisses and Laurent’s constant request to listen to the jazz album “Café de flore.” When a young girl who also has Down syndrome joins Laurent’s class, Jacqueline’s tightly woven world begins to fray.
As it did in C.R.A.Z.Y., music plays a crucial role in Café de flore, encap-sulating the characters’ memories and emotions, forming the soundtracks to their lives and fervently filling the edges of the screen. It seems initially that music is the only link between the two stories, but as Carole’s nightmares and sleepwalking inten-sify, we begin to sense that she is connected to Jacqueline in a much deeper way. Viewers who only know him for the stately The Young Victoria may be taken aback by the film’s unflinching sexuality, which is elegantly captured yet raw. With its superbly paced fluidity, Café de flore possesses an undeni-able musicality: its layered, rhythmic beat mixing together two powerful tales of love and loss.
“There’s a visceral force to this separation drama that can’t be ignored.” Brendan Kelly, The Gazette
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
May 23, 2012 at 2:00pm + 7:30pm
(United Kingdom, 2012 – Rated 14A – 112 min)
Directed by Lasse Hallström
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Trailer
A Special Presentation at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival®, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is the highly-anticipated, latest film from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lasse Hallström (The Shipping News, Chocolat). Adapted from Paul Torday’s bestselling novel of the same name, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen tells the remarkable story of an unlikely hero who finds himself a victim in a political plot, discovers love and learns to believe in the impossible. Ewan McGregor (Beginners, Little Voice) stars as Fred Jones, a fisheries expert and academic who toils away working for the British government. When he is approached by the beautiful, young Har-riet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria, The Devil Wears Prada) with a proposal to introduce salmon into the waterways of Yemen, he laughs off the scheme, claiming it impossible. (more…)
