17th Cinema on the Bayou Virtual Film Festival

FRENCH LANGUAGE NARRATIVE SHORTS - YOUTHFUL STRUGGLES

Expired February 3, 2022 5:00 AM
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In the summer of '99, four very close sisters have only one idea in mind: to do it. Their discussions solely revolve around that. From this sexual awakening and as their feminine bodies bloom, they slowly become more and more aware of their seductive power and above all they become painfully aware of their universal solitude. The complexity of the relationship that unites them with their overprotective mother turns the summer of ‘99 into a summer of liberty, passion, secret and forbidden. They find out about what pulls them apart and about the fragility of human relationships as they seek to master their own bodies. These are the voices of these four women.

Because so do girls.


Director's Biography:


A Concordia University graduate, Myriam Guimond is the filmmaker who produced and directed the short film Jade & Matteo – an intimate production about denial in the face of mental illness – that has been featured in several international film festivals, including Regard and that won the FFEQ Jury's Choice Award. Her latest short film Partie de chasse was selected by téléfilm Canada to be featured as part of the Cannes Film Festival. Myriam is mainly interested in round characters, as well as complex human relationships, which give voice to nuanced beings. She is currently committed to her first full-length feature film.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    20 minutes
  • Language
    French
  • Country
    Canada
  • Premiere
    Louisiana Premiere
  • Rating
    Mature
  • Director
    Myriam Guimond
  • Screenwriter
    Myriam Guimond
  • Producer
    Caroline Galipeau
  • Cast
    Laurie Babin Renaud Labelle, Mylia Corbeil-Gauvreau, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Lili Francke-Robitaille, Martine Francke, Éléonore Lamothe
  • Cinematographer
    Yan Clément
  • Editor
    Sophie Guérin
  • Sound Design
    Francis Renaud-Legault
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