''Triptych'' () is a 2013 Canadian

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directed by

Robert Lepage Robert Lepage (born December 12, 1957) is a Canadian playwright, actor, film director, and stage director. Early life Lepage was raised in Quebec City. At age five, he was diagnosed with a rare form of alopecia, which caused complete hair lo ...

and

Pedro Pires Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires (; born 29 April 1934) is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as president from 2001 to 2011. Life and career Pires was born in São Filipe, Fogo, Cap ...

. Adapted from Lepage's theatrical play ''Lipsynch'', the film centres on Michelle ( Lise Castonguay), a woman who has just been released from the hospital following a diagnosis with

schizophrenia Schizophrenia () is a mental disorder characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking and behavior, and Reduced affect display, f ...

, and her sister Marie ( Frédérike Bédard), a singer and actress who is herself recovering from brain surgery that has left her temporarily unable to speak. The film had its theatrical premiere on 6 September 2013 at the

2013 Toronto International Film Festival The 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 5 and 15, 2013. ''The Fifth Estate (film), The Fifth Estate'' was selected as the opening film and ''Life of Crime (film), Life o ...

, and was later shown in the Panorama section of the

64th Berlin International Film Festival The 64th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 February 2014. Wes Anderson's film ''The Grand Budapest Hotel'' opened the festival. British film director Ken Loach was presented with the Golden Bear#Golden Bear .E2.80. ...

."«Triptyque» de Robert Lepage et Pedro Pires en selection Panorama à la Berlinale".

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, 19 December 2013. The film received two

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nominations at the

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(Lepage, Pires) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Lepage), and four

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nominations at the

16th Jutra Awards The 16th Prix Jutra ceremony was held on March 23, 2014 at the Monument-National theatre in Montreal, Quebec, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2013. Nominations were announced in January.Éric Moreault"Prix Jutra: Louis Cyr champi ...

, for

Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to: Film awards * AACTA Award for Best Direction * Academy Award for Best Director * As ...

(Lepage, Pires),

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(Castonguay), Best Art Direction ( Jean Babin, Christian Légaré and David Pelletier) and Best Costume Design (

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)."Jutra nominations light up screen scene; Top Quebecois films include Louis Cyr and Gabrielle". ''

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'', 28 January 2014.

Cast

* Frédérike Bédard as Marie Lavallée * Lise Castonguay as Michelle Lavallée * as Thomas Bruckner * Rebecca Blankenship as Ada Weber *

Aube Foglia Aube Foglia is a Canadian film editor. She is most noted as a four-time Jutra/Iris Award nominee for Best Editing, receiving nominations at the 1st Jutra Awards in 1999 for '' Nô'', the 4th Jutra Awards in 2002 for '' Between the Moon and Monte ...

as Whispering *

Marie-Ginette Guay Marie-Ginette Guay is a Canadian film and television actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance as Lucette Simoneau in the film ''Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)'', for which she was a Genie Award ...

as Social worker * Michel Nadeau as Psychiatrist * Eliot Laprise as Guillaume

References

External links

* 2013 films 2013 drama films Canadian drama films Films directed by Robert Lepage Films directed by Pedro Pires French-language Canadian films 2010s Canadian films French-language drama films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub