Mireille Dansereau

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Mireille Dansereau

Born December 19, 1943 · Montreal, Québec, Canada (age 82)

Mireille Dansereau (born December 19, 1943) is a Canadian director and screenwriter who is known for "emulating the style and approach of her aesthetic role model, John Cassavetes". She received several accolades throughout her film career which spans over 50 years.

Known For

ForumForum · 1969
Forum
1969
MovieDocumentary
Recording of a tense discussion between three people around the question of "revolution". Steve Ben Israel (member of the Living Theatre), James Cellan (BBC director) and David Autie (sculptor) confront each other in a debate that provoked a strong political and radical awareness among the students of the Royal College of Art in London. The screening of the document led to the return to school of five students who had been unjustly expelled by the school administration.
Deaf to the CityDeaf to the City · 1987
Deaf to the City
★ 5.11987
MovieDrama
The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope. Gloria, who runs the place, earns most of her money as a stripper. She lives there with her two daughters and a son with an untreated brain tumor. Charlie, who is forever in and out of jail, is Gloria's sometime lover. A recent check-in is there hoping she can work up the courage to commit suicide, since her rich doctor husband ran off and left her. Another resident is Tim, who keeps company with his dog and his booze in equal measure. A schoolteacher comes by from time to time, hoping to do these people some good, but in choosing this lot to work with, she proves to be just as much of a loser as the rest of them.
Les seins dans la têteLes seins dans la tête · 1994
Les seins dans la tête
★ 10.01994
MovieDocumentary
What place do breasts occupy in the identity of women? Intersecting several voices--adolescent girls, mothers, lesbians, dancers, bodybuilders...--this film draws a mosaic portrait of the breast, from childhood to maturity, from seduction to illness, from motherhood to surgery, from the tyranny of the image to self-acceptance. An impressionist documentary, funny and touching, against the backdrop of the beach and holidays.
CompromiseCompromise · 1968
Compromise
1968
MovieDrama
Madeleine, a young French Canadian woman, goes to London to study English literature. She meets a young actor, Peter, who has just graduated from school and is unemployed.
Alone or with OthersAlone or with Others · 1962
Alone or with Others
★ 6.71962
MovieDocumentaryDrama
At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length film centered on the perks of student life. The film mixes fiction and reality in the style of cinéma vérité. "Alone or with others" is often considered the first indepent film of Québec.
Les marchés de Londres (1969-1996)Les marchés de Londres (1969-1996) · 1996
Les marchés de Londres (1969-1996)
1996
Movie
The story of two characters that we hear but never see. The film begins with a young student filming the London Markets in 1969. 25 years later, she invites a man to watch the film about his youth. The couple converse over the footage from that time, a budding love develops as the film ends.
Dream LifeDream Life · 1972
Dream Life
★ 4.61972
MovieDrama
Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
J'me marie, j'me marie pasJ'me marie, j'me marie pas · 1973
J'me marie, j'me marie pas
★ 9.01973
MovieDocumentary
Feature-length documentary directed by Mireille Danserau in 1973: in-depth interviews with four young women who explain their complex relationships with men, motherhood and their own femininity, sometimes radically detaching themselves from the standardized and traditional conception of the couple.

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Deaf to the CityDeaf to the City · 1987
Deaf to the City
★ 5.11987
MovieDrama
The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope. Gloria, who runs the place, earns most of her money as a stripper. She lives there with her two daughters and a son with an untreated brain tumor. Charlie, who is forever in and out of jail, is Gloria's sometime lover. A recent check-in is there hoping she can work up the courage to commit suicide, since her rich doctor husband ran off and left her. Another resident is Tim, who keeps company with his dog and his booze in equal measure. A schoolteacher comes by from time to time, hoping to do these people some good, but in choosing this lot to work with, she proves to be just as much of a loser as the rest of them.

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