It had its world première under the title A Worthy Companion at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, and was released in the U.S. Montreal brothers Carlos and Jason Sanchez have mostly been known for their fine-art photography, but they have diversified into feature filmmaking with Allure, which opens in Toronto and Vancouver on Friday and in Montreal on April 13. Duguay also directed the films The Art of War and Jappeloup, and the TV miniseries Joan of Arc, Hitler: The Rise of Evil, and Human Trafficking. 22.ĭuguay’s previous feature Un sac de billes was a monster hit in France, pulling in 1.3 million moviegoers. The première will be at Théâtre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts on Feb. It will play in 10 cities in Quebec next year. Following from that experience, she is preparing her first musical show, Elle était une fois, which is built around songs by female songwriters. She sings all the songs in La Bolduc, and the producers released a soundtrack in late 2017. She is now set to branch out in a couple of new directions.

Until now, Lynch-White was best known for playing prison guard Nancy Prévost in Unité 9, the phenomenally popular Radio-Canada drama about female prisoners, and it was a huge deal ici this past fall when her character was killed off.

If we want to move forward, we have to know where we came from. For the status of women, for equal salaries. She was in the end a feminist, in her actions, and I think it’s important that young people realize who she was, because there’s still work to be done for women’s rights. She didn’t do it saying, ‘I’m a feminist.’ She did it because her kids had to eat. “She comes from a working-class milieu and she broke through a lot of doors in an era when women didn’t really have the right to break through those doors. “I think La Bolduc was an important woman in our history,” said Lynch-White. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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