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Paul Savoie
Paul Savoie (born May 21, 1946) is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2015 film '' The Diary of an Old Man (Le Journal d’un vieil homme)'', for which he was a Prix Iris Prix was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1975 by Tommy Hoehn and Jon Tiven. The group ended up primarily as a studio project. Its recordings were produced by Tiven along with former Big Star member Chris Bell, who ... nominee for Best Actor at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2016, and won the award for Best Performance in a Borsos Competition Film at the Whistler Film Festival. Filmography Films Television References 1946 births Living people Canadian male television actors Canadian male film actors Male actors from Quebec {{Quebec-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Caretaker's Lodge
''The Caretaker's Lodge'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Michel Poulette and released in 1997.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 47. The film stars Serge Dupire as Jacques Laniel, a police officer who quits the force to become a private detective so that he can investigate and solve the murder of his former police partner Thomas Colin ( Jacques Godin). The cast also includes Macha Grenon, Monique Spaziani, Tania Kontoyanni, Jean-René Ouellet, Michel Forget, Raymond Cloutier, Paul Dion, Carl Béchard, Maka Kotto, Dorothée Berryman, Marie-Claude Lefebvre, Isabel Richer, David La Haye, Eric Cabana, Lenie Scoffié, Paul Buissonneau, Caroline Néron, JiCi Lauzon, Guy Provost, Andrée Champagne, Claude Léveillée and Bianca Gervais in supporting roles. The screenplay was written by Poulette and journalist and crime novelist Benoît Dutrizac. The film premiered at the 1997 Montreal World Film Festival, where it won the award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trauma (Canadian TV Series)
''Trauma'' is a Canadian French language television medical drama series, which was broadcast from January 5, 2010 to April 2, 2014 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé. The series is set in the trauma unit of the fictional Hôpital Saint-Arsène in Montreal, Quebec. Cast * Isabel Richer : Julie Lemieux * Gilbert Sicotte : Antoine Légaré * Jean-François Pichette : Mathieu Darveau * James Hyndman : Pierre Meilleur * Christian Bégin : David Roche * Pascale Montpetit : Diane Hevey * Stéphane Demers : Julien Léveillée * Laurence Leboeuf : Sophie Léveillée * Yan England : Étienne Labrie * Catherine De Léan : Caroline Lemelin * Maxime Le Flaguais : Éric Lanoue * Isabelle Blais : Véronique Bilodeau * Madeleine Péloquin : Martine Laliberté * Cristina Rosato : Amaro Giulia * Alice Morel-Michaud : Julie Lemieux (as child in flashbacks) Music For each season, all soundtrack music for the series has been provided by a noted pop singer from Quebec, who has recorded cover ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamaska (TV Series)
''Yamaska'' is a French-Canadian drama series airing on TVA. It was created by Anne Boyer and Michel D'Astous and seven seasons have been broadcast starting 28 September 2009. Synopsis The drama series runs around three families, the Harrison, the Carpentier and the Brabant families living in Granby. Cast Harrison Family * Normand D'Amour as William Harrison * Chantal Fontaine as Julie Davignon * Adam Kosh as Lambert Harrison *Yan England as Brian Harrison * Roxanne Gaudette-Loiseau as Ingrid Harrison * Gabriel Maillé as Frédérick Harrison * Michel Dumont as Zachary Harrison * Maude Laurendeau as Victoria Carpentier Family * Denis Bernard as Phillipe Carpentier *Élise Guilbault as Réjeanne Carpentier * Pascal Darilus as Geoffroy Carpentier * François Arnaud as Théo Carpentier (season 1) * Guillaume Perreault as Théo Carpentier (season 2) * Sylvie De Morais as Sacha Carpentier Brabant Family * Patricia Nolin as Marthe Brabant *Patrick Labbé as Étienne Brabant *A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Sœurs Elliot
''Les Sœurs Elliot'' (The Elliot Sisters) is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on TVA in the 2007–08 season. The series stars Sylvie Léonard, Isabel Richer and Julie Perreault as three sisters whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their father returns from Angola after disappearing thirty years earlier. External links *"'Quel beau casting' pour ''Les Soeurs Elliot'' ''Le Journal de Montréal is a daily French-language tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Quebec and is also the largest French-language daily newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Pé ...'', April 19, 2007 Téléromans TVA (Canadian TV network) original programming 2007 Canadian television series debuts Television shows set in Quebec 2000s Canadian drama television series {{Canada-drama-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A People's History
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Respectable Woman (film)
''A Respectable Woman'' () is a 2023 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Bernard Émond. Adapted in part from Luigi Pirandello's short story "Such Is Life (Pena di vivere cosi)" and set in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, in the 1930s, the film stars Hélène Florent as Rose Lemay, a woman who reluctantly agrees to take back her ex-husband Paul-Émile (Martin Dubreuil) after the death of the woman he left her for 11 years earlier, even though Paul-Émile is not genuinely interested in rekindling their releationship so much as in finding a new mother for his three children from the other relationship. The cast also includes Paul Savoie, Brigitte Lafleur, Juliette Maxyme Proulx and Normand Canac-Marquis. The film entered production in 2022, with shooting taking place in Trois-Rivières and Rosemont. It premiered at the Filmfest München on June 28, 2023, and opened commercially on August 18.Véronique Larocque"Le nouveau film de Bernard Émond en première mondiale à Munich" ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Brother's Love
''A Brother's Love'' () is a 2019 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Monia Chokri. It had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It was released theatrically in Canada on 7 June 2019 by Les Films Séville. The film stars Anne-Élisabeth Bossé as Sophia, an immature university graduate student who is forced to reassess her life when her brother Karim ( Patrick Hivon), with whom she has always had a very close and codependent relationship, falls in love with her gynecologist Éloise ( Evelyne Brochu). Plot Sophia earns her PhD for her thesis on Antonio Gramsci, but discovers a lack of teaching positions available in her field and is saddled with student debt. At age 35, she lives rent-free with her brother Karim and leads tours at a local art gallery. Pregnant, Sophia seeks an abortion and she and Karim meet Eloïse, a doctor. Eloïse recognizes Karim as a man she met and slept with when she first moved to Montreal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Masters Of Suspense
''The Masters of Suspense'' () is a 2014 Canadian film directed by Stéphane Lapointe. Plot Hubert Wolfe ( Michel Côté), an author of detective novels, has used the services of Dany Cabana (Robin Aubert) for several years, as a ghostwriter. When the Cabana runs out of inspiration, he hires Quentin Wilson (Antoine Bertrand Antoine Bertrand (born November 24, 1977) is a Canadian film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series ''Les Bougon'' and the films '' Louis Cyr'', a role that earned him the Iris Award for Best Actor, and '' S ...), his son's teacher, as a second ghost writer. Wolfe's next book Paradise Zombie is announced and impatiently awaited by its publisher, but things get complicated when Quentin, until then inhibited and infantilized by his mother, has to write a sex scene. Since he lacks experience, Dany sets a sexual trap for him with an accomplice prostitute.Charles-Henri Ramond"Maîtres du suspense, Les – Film de Stéphane La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl In The White Coat
''The Girl in the White Coat'' is a 2011 Cinema of Canada, Canadian drama film directed and written by Darrell Wasyk, based on the short story "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol. Plot Elise, a factory worker who lives in isolation and is tormented by her co-workers, decides that despite her lack of money, she must get her coat fixed. A case of mistaken identity pulls her into events she had not intended. Cast * Steven Bettez as Security Guard * Christian Grenier as Andy * Joey Klein as Sterling * Roc LaFortune as Mr. Rossi * Louise Marleau as Mrs. Prouve * Monique Mercure as Mrs. Valinsky * Pascale Montpetit as Elise * Neil Napier as Spike * Julien Poulin as Elise's Father * Paul Savoie as Monsieur Prouve * Lita Tresierra as Cindy Recognition ''The Girl in the White Coat'' earned Pascale Montpetit a Genie Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress, Best Actress at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012. At the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013, Joey Klein was nominated for Prix Iris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Banquet
''Le Banquet'' is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Sébastien Rose and released in 2008. The film's original working title was ''Comme une flamme''. Set at an unnamed university in Montreal amidst the backdrop of a student strike over rising tuition fees, the film centres on Bertrand ( Alexis Martin), an idealistic young professor who battles the university administration after it refuses to expel a problem student (Benoît McGinnis) who is being disruptive in Bertrand's class. Cast * Larissa Corriveau as Karine * Benoît McGinnis as Gilbert * Frédéric Pierre as Louis-Ferdinand * Raymond Bouchard as Jean-Marc - Recteur * Alexis Martin as Bertrand * Catherine De Léan as Natasha * Émile Proulx-Cloutier as Stéphane * Maxime Le Flaguais s Marcel * Yves Jacques as Rivard * Paul Ahmarani as Réalisateur Award nominations The film garnered five Genie Award nominations at the 29th Genie Awards in 2009: * Best Supporting Actor: McGinnis *Best Cinematography: Nicolas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family History (2006 Film)
''Family History'' () is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Michel Poulette and released in 2006. The film is a family drama, tracing the complex story of the Gagné family through a period of change both in their family and in the wider society of Quebec, from the dawn of the Quiet Revolution in 1960 through to the election of the Parti Québécois in the 1976 Quebec general election; the events are wrapped in a frame story in which Julie Gagné (Maxim Roy) finds and reads a book that seems strangely close to her own family history, and attempts to track down its author Jean Calixa ( Serge Theriault).Bernard Pérusse, "Wait for the TV version". ''Montreal Gazette'', January 27, 2006. The cast includes Luc Proulx and Danielle Proulx as Robert and May Gagné, Juliette Gosselin as their daughter Monique in her pre-teen years, Évelyne Rompré as Monique when she reaches young adulthood, Louis-Philippe Dandenault as their son Pierre Gagné, Sébastien Huberdeau as their son Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
