Sat, May 13, 2017
In 2014, the movie « Mommy » directed by Xavier Dolan, got the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a great achievement for this director prodigy from Quebec, who had just turned 25. The script - a tumultuous relationship between a single mother and his hyperactive and violent son - and the bold direction electrified the audience. Shot in Montreal, the documentary by Tessa Louise Salomé tells the genesis of this family drama. It also reveals the failures of the society in Quebec : the failure of the mental institution and the impoverishment of the middle class.
Tue, May 18, 2021
From its Palme d'Or win to its 4 million Japanese viewers, the triumph of "A Family Affair" took its author by surprise, as he thought he had made, with a close-knit team and a modest budget, a more confidential film than his previous ones. Hirokazu Kore-eda, who still writes, directs and edits the film himself, explains that he was inspired by news stories to imagine this "family of shoplifters" (the original title, in Japanese) to which, from the outset, one wants to belong. He wanted to show through it the richness of the bonds of the heart, the attention to the most fragile, the coexistence of generations; but also to highlight the life of these "invisible" people, more and more numerous, reduced to an extreme precariousness by ultraliberalism.