A seismologist investigates the mysterious cessation of the tides near her Quebec home town.
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Cast
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| Pascale Bussières | ... | Alice Bradley | |
| Julie Gayet | ... | Catherine Rolland | |
| Jean-Nicolas Verreault | ... | Marc Vandal | |
| Geneviève Bujold | ... | Colette Lasalle | |
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Norman Helms | ... | Michel |
| Vincent Bilodeau | ... | Simon Deslandes | |
| Gabriel Arcand | ... | L'éditeur | |
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Jean-Pierre Ronfard | ... | Hanspeter |
| Stephen Chang | ... | Hijikata | |
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Peter Kosaka | ... | Mori |
| Tsuyu Shimizu | ... | Yoko | |
| Luc Proulx | ... | Réal | |
| Ji-yan Seguin | ... | Camille | |
| Denise Dubois | ... | Madame Guillet | |
| 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>
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11 December 2002 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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EUR7,000,000 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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This is not a 'great' film from Quebec but I find it worth my time. At places it was uneven, but the storyline and the characters portrayed in the film are interesting enough to hold my attention throughout.
Acting by actress Pascale Bussières was a bit constraint at times but she was fairly convincing as a scientist with a troubled past. The opening of the film showed her working in Tokyo but this portion of the plot is later on proved to be totally unnecessary and irrelevant to the story.
The film has other shortcoming too. But if you keep in mind this is a low-budget art film, you will still get quite a bit of enjoyment out of it.