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Des toast au fer, C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) directed by Jean-Marc Vallée

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Anne Claire Poirier

Director and producer Anne Claire Poirier was born in 1932 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. Poirier made her directorial debut with 30 Minutes, Mr. Plummer in 1963, and her first feature film, De mère en fille, followed in 1968. She is credited with launching feminist cinema in Quebec, and has spent more than thirty years at the National Film Board, championing films by and for women. Poirier's films have addressed subjects including sexual assault, pregnancy, abortion, and old age. In 1988, she won the Albert-Tessier Prize, and in 2001, she won the Governor General's Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award.

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SUBLIME CINEMA #518 - LAURENCE ANYWAYS

Canada has a great film community and funding scheme which helps prop up young filmmakers, helps get them funding, helps them to thrive and eventually work within the wider world. Case in point: Quebec, a relatively tiny province which has exported many great directors in recent years. There’s Xavier Dolan, who started as a director at 18 with a rather great debut J’ai Tué Ma Mere, and recently directed Adele’s last music video. Denis Villeneuve went on to make Blade Runner 2049 and now Dune. Jean Marc Vallee; the Dallas Buyers Club, Sharp Objects... Talented sure, but with the means behind them, and the support to help cultivate talent.

Dolan earned his stripe as a wunderkind, all of his films have ended up at Cannes; he has an eye for beauty, but also a raw improv quality that makes scenes in his films pop.

Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur [Whoever Dies, Dies in Pain] (1998) Robert Morin

A news cameraman is on the heels of a police team during a raid on a drug den. Things go wrong when the police find the junkies armed. In the chaos, the cameraman is taken hostage. The house is surrounded. During the 36 hours of the siege, the junkies force the cameraman to record their version of the story until they run out of stock.

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