Familia (2005)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Louise Archambault

Writer:

Louise Archambault (writer)

Release Date:

9 August 2006 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Every family has its secrets.

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Breast Squeezing | Mother Daughter Relationship | Promiscuous Mother | Underage Smoking | One Word Title

Awards:

2 wins & 9 nominations

Cast

Sylvie Moreau	...	Michèle
Macha Grenon	...	Janine
Juliette Gosselin	...	Gabrielle
Mylène St-Sauveur	...	Marguerite
Micheline Lanctôt	...	Madeleine
Patricia Nolin	...	Estelle
Paul Savoie	...	Lucien
Vincent Graton	...	Charles
Emily Holmes	...	Kate
Xavier Morin-Lefort	...	Olivier
Jacques L'Heureux	...	François
Norman Helms	...	Francis
Sonia Vigneault	...	Laurence
Alexandre Côté	...	Anthony
Claude Despins	...	Scott
Hélène Florent	...	Chloé
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Billie Calmeau	...	Baby Girl (uncredited)

Directed by
Louise Archambault

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Louise Archambault		writer

Produced by
Luc Déry	....	producer
Kim McCraw	....	producer

Original Music by
Ramachandra Bocar

Cinematography by
André Turpin

Film Editing by
Sophie Leblond

Production Design by
Pierre Allard

Makeup Department
Christophe Giraud	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Erik Daniel	....	post-production supervisor
Jean-François Roesler	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Alexandre Bernard	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Alexandre Juneau	....	property master
Nadine Petit Clerc	....	set designer

Sound Department
Sylvain Bellemare	....	sound designer
Pierre Bertrand	....	sound
Olivier Calvert	....	sound effects editor
Louis Gignac	....	sound
Patrick Lalonde	....	assistant sound re-recording mixer
Jacques-Alexandre Levesque	....	assistant foley artist
François B. Senneville	....	sound editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Bertrand Calmeau	....	still photographer
Frédéric Chamberland	....	Steadicam operator

Casting Department
Carole Dionne	....	extras casting

Editorial Department
Arthur Montreuil	....	color timer

Transportation Department
Hans Laliberté	....	office driver

Other crew
Sandra Borromeo	....	production coordinator
Élaine Hébert	....	assistant to producer
Yanick Veilleux	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• micro_scope

Distributors

• CTV International (2006) (France) (theatrical)
• Christal Films (worldwide) (all media)
• Film Movement (2006) (USA) (all media)

Runtime:

Canada:102 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Canada:102 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:R21 (cut)

Company:

micro_scope

A movie industry that gets better, a new movie that comes out of this!

Familia is a shocking movie that analyse problems families are having in 2005. Missing mother without any money, infidel and greedy father, easily influenced child in crisis, everything is there. It is so actual that some people won't appreciate this movie for its own value because they won't take a necessary step back to see the importance of the problem. This movie is the first movie picture for Louise Archambault but she had only done a short movie called Atomic Sake in 1999. That movie is the beginning of a nice career for her. André Turpin's Wife (Un Crabe Dans la Tête, 2001) was great at directing perfectly the actresses and actors in this movie.

The movie is the story of Michèle (Sylvie Moreau) and her daughter Marguerite (Mylène St-Sauveur) who are moving in Janine's house who has 2 children. Right at the beginning, Janine (Macha Grenon) knows that Michèle is an compulsive and happy person and that her daughter Marguerite will have a bad influence on her own child, Gabrielle (Juliette Gosselin). But she trusts the story of Michèle when she told her that she is hiding from her manipulative husband and that she will move to California when she will have enough money. Janine will find a terrible truth about her her husband, Charles (Vincent Graton), who is isn't as good as the other ones. No one is perfect, and this story shows both sides of the story.

Familia is a movie worth seeing. If he would have been filmed in 2015, it would have thought about the life of people in 2005 and all their secrets. In other words, it has been out at right moment!