A seismologist investigates the mysterious cessation of the tides near her Quebec home town.
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Title: Chaos and Desire (2002)
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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 | |
| 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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Helicopter rotor visible in the top left corner of the screen in one shot of Marc's plane flying over the forest, towards the beginning of the movie. See more »Connections
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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 beautifully photographed film tells the story of a scientist woman trying to explain an unusual phenomenon taken place in the Saint-Lawrence river in a recluse region of northern Quebec. Her work will take her to a journey she was not expecting which primarily deals with her own private longings. Some may say that the film takes way too long to get to the point which, from that perspective, must be the love story. Others may argue the exact opposite; that the love story is secondary to the natural disaster plot it therefore dilutes. I tend to believe that both stories are moving along at the same rate which is fairly slow and might even be perceived as hesitant. The overall effect is one of a very well done piece of cinema with a powerful dramatic finale but also of an almost lazy script that should have went through a couple more rewrites. In short, an uneven film with still lots of charm.