Chaos and Desire
(2002)
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Chaos and Desire
(2002)
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| Pascale Bussières | ... | ||
| Julie Gayet | ... |
Catherine Rolland
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| Jean-Nicolas Verreault | ... | ||
| Geneviève Bujold | ... |
Colette Lasalle
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Norman Helms | ... |
Michel
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Vincent Bilodeau | ... |
Simon Deslandes
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| Gabriel Arcand | ... |
L'éditeur
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Jean-Pierre Ronfard | ... |
Hanspeter
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| Stephen Chang | ... |
Hijikata
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| Peter Kosaka | ... |
Mori
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| Tsuyu Shimizu | ... |
Yoko
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Luc Proulx | ... |
Réal
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| Ji-yan Seguin | ... |
Camille
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Denise Dubois | ... |
Madame Guillet
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Suzanne Garceau | ... |
Soeur Berthe
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Seismologist Alice Bradley is despatched to her home town of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, to investigate why the tides have stopped flowing there. She is reunited with an old college friend, reporter Catherine Rolland, and meets roguish pilot Marc Vandal. It soon becomes apparent that the problems with the tide coincided with a variety of odd behaviour amongst the Baie-Comeau residents, and Alice gradually realises that the solution to the mystery may be stranger than she ever anticipated. Written by Shannon Patrick Sullivan <shannon@mun.ca>
In the warm and humorous Quebecois film, Chaos and Desire, shown at last year's Vancouver Film Festival, Alice Bradley, played by the lovely Pascale Bussieres, is a seismologist working in Japan studying the factors that can predict earthquakes. When the tides mysteriously stop flowing on the St. Lawrence River in her hometown of Baie Comeau, she returns to investigate and comes up against the bizarre behavior of local residents. In one instance, a little Chinese girl (Ji-Yan Séguin) sleepwalks every night at the exact same time. In others, a woman chops down every tree in her front yard, and the phone number of a fire-fighting pilot named Marc Vandal (Jean-Nicolas Verreault) has been ripped out of every phone book in town.
Running from a troubled past and consumed by loneliness, Alice must now deal not only with the problem of the tides but with a growing involvement with Vandal and the not so subtle advances of her journalist friend Catherine (Julie Gayet). When Alice uncovers the film's central mystery, the presumed drowning of Vandal's wife, the investigation turns away from science to the world of spirit and achieves a resolution of surprising power.