The Girl with the Red Beret
2023 · 6 min · Animation, Music
A girl takes a wild ride on the metro in Montreal. Travelling from station to station, she encounters an array of colourful characters in a bizarre musical journey that’s peppered with hilarious and unexpected incidents. This joyful, heartwarming animated film portrays Montreal in all its vitality, creativity and diversity, with plenty of humour and good cheer, to the tune of Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s timeless hit “Complainte pour Ste-Catherine.”
Directed by Janet Perlman · Written by Janet Perlman
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- A Anna McGarrigle Self
- K Kate McGarrigle Self
- L Lily Lanken Self
- M Martha Wainwright Self
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MovieAnimationRomance
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MovieDocumentaryAnimation
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MovieAnimation
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MovieAnimation
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MovieAnimationComedy
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★ 6.52016
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★ 1.02010
MovieAnimationComedy
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2008
MovieDocumentaryAnimation
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MovieDramaMusic
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