With the disappearance of the Festival des films du monde, the FNC has taken the title it had already unofficially claimed, of Montreal’s “big, generalist, international film festival,” as described by Protat, who has been at her post for just three years. In the end, perhaps it is fitting that the festival’s 50th-birthday celebrations will be staggered.
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The festival screens restored versions of some older Quebec films, including Philippe Falardeau’s La moitié gauche du frigo, Myriam Verreault and Henry Bernadet’s À l’ouest de Pluton, and Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s 2001 classic Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner plus international ones including David Lynch’s 2001 Hollywood head trip Mulholland Drive and Polish director Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 psychodrama Possession. Article content “Each medium is a way for me to express a topic that is important to me,” says Algonquin-Québécoise filmmaker and visual artist Caroline Monnet, whose first feature, Bootlegger, opens the Festival du nouveau cinéma. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It’s a film that is not commercial, and not that accessible, so I think it’s daring of them to trust me and offer me this platform.” “It’s fantastic,” she said of being offered the coveted opening slot. The FNC is familiar turf for Monnet, who has shown her short films at the festival and once appeared on its annual poster. “In the end, both projects talk about the same thing,” Monnet said, “looking at the chaos of the past, but turning to the future - breaking the cycle of victimization to grow together in a spirit of self-determination.” “Each medium is a way for me to express a topic that is important to me,” said Monnet, whose exhibition Ninga Mìnèh, exploring the Indigenous housing crisis, was shown this year at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.īootlegger is a drama about who controls access to alcohol in a fictional Indigenous community. 6 before arriving in Quebec theatres two days later. Other notable titles include French director Jacques Audiard’s Les Olympiades, Italian veteran Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God, and two by French iconoclast Gaspar Noé: Lux Aeterna, starring Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Irreversible - Straight Cut, the inverted version of his 2002 psychological thriller starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.Īs usual, the FNC hosts a strong selection of titles from Quebec and the rest of Canada, including Bootlegger, the first feature from Algonquin-Québécoise visual artist and filmmaker Caroline Monnet, which opens the FNC on Oct. “He shoots so fast, we were able to get both.” In Front of Your Face is one of two films by South Korean director Hong Sangsoo at the FNC this year. “It’s fun to show both his films from the past year,” Protat said. The FNC also presents two films from South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo: In Front of Your Face (which premièred at Cannes) and Introduction (which won best screenplay in Berlin). “It’s an acerbic film on patriotism, history, relations between the sexes, slut-shaming and hypocrisy. “(The movie) was shot during lockdown in Bucharest,” Protat said. She also taps the snappily titled Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, by Romania’s Radu Jude, winner of the Golden Bear - the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival - about a high school history teacher whose world is upended by a sex tape filmed by her husband. “It’s a very rich film,” Protat said, “very intelligent, playful, funny and poetic.” Renate Reinsve won best actress at Cannes for her performance in The Worst Person in the World. The movie, which follows a 30-year-old woman through an existential crisis, premièred in competition at Cannes, where Renate Reinsve won best actress. While last year’s 49th edition happened amid last-minute in-person screening cancellations and a vastly reduced program, this year’s edition is back to the FNC’s familiar mix of the cream of the international festival crop and a promising roster of up-and-coming talent.Īlso at the top of her list is Danish-Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World. “For the second year of COVID, we really succeeded in putting together a pretty wild lineup,” said FNC programming director Zoé Protat. While there will be no partying, there will, as always, be great films to catch. Luckily, the FNC is first and foremost a film fest. But public health said if we do that, people have to arrive wearing masks, then sit at their tables and not move, and leave by 11. We were considering putting a tent in Place des Festivals, with three open doors. “In the last few weeks, we had to cancel all cocktail events and soirées,” Deltruc said.
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