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Directing
Jacques Gagné
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Known For
The Conquest · 1973The Conquest
★ 6.01973
MovieRomanceDrama
Each married on their side, a teacher and a sociologist meet by chance in Quebec. Political and intellectual discussions followed a brief mad love.
Nénette · 1992Nénette
★ 6.01992
MovieTV MovieDrama
Playgirl Killer · 1967Playgirl Killer
★ 5.61967
MovieHorror
A rich, lonely woman hires a drifter as a live-in handyman. The drifter turns out to be a psycho artist who has beautiful women model for him.
Mon amie Max · 1994Mon amie Max
★ 5.71994
MovieDrama
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Cries from the Deep · 1981Cries from the Deep
★ 10.01981
MovieDocumentary
This documentary records the journey undertaken by Jacques Cousteau, his 24-member team, and an NFB film crew to explore the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, one of the world's richest fishing areas. They discover shipwrecks, film icebergs and observe beluga whales, humpback whales and harp seals. The film also includes a fascinating sequence showing Calypso divers freeing a calf whale entrapped in a fishing net.
Before the Time Comes · 1975Before the Time Comes
★ 9.01975
MovieDrama
Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he wants a large family. The two of them discuss their differing attitudes and desires but come to no resolution.
La nuit avec Hortense · 1988La nuit avec Hortense
★ 6.01988
MovieDrama
In an abandoned house by the river, a man meets a woman. All night long, they try to love each other.
A Scream from Silence · 1979A Scream from Silence
★ 5.81979
MovieDrama
A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
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