Director
Léa Pool
Production
Association coopérative de productions audiovisuelles
Language
Français
Year
1984
89 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1
A well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, she has a brief but unsettling encounter with Estelle a suicidal elderly woman named. This is briefly forgotten until later when she meets the old lady again and with mounting incredulity Andrea discovers that the actual events in the woman’s life mirror the fictional events in the director’s film.
A well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, she has a brief but unsettling encounter with Estelle a suicidal elderly woman named. This is briefly forgotten until later when she meets the old lady again and with mounting incredulity Andrea discovers that the actual events in the woman’s life mirror the fictional events in the director’s film.
Writer : Robert Gurik
Cinematography : Georges Dufaux
Production Designer : Vianney Gauthier
Sound : Serge Beauchemin
Editor : Michel Arcand
Sound designer : Michel Arcand
Sound mixer : Henri Blondeau
Music : Yves Laferrière
Starring : Paule Baillargeon, Louise Marleau, Marthe Turgeon, Serge Dupire, Kim Yaroshevskaya, Geneviève Paris
Léa Pool
Léa Pool was born and raised in Switzerland, before emigrating to Quebec in 1975 at the age of twenty-five. After studying communication, she taught cinema and video at UQAM, while producing TV programs and her first films. Esteemed by the public and the critics alike, the works she produced in the 80’s (Strass Café, La femme de l’hôtel, Anne Trister, À corps perdu), stood out at international festivals and already bear witness to the filmmaker’s favorite themes: quests for individual meaning, feminine trajectories, intimate relationships… Her fiction work of the 90’s cemented her place in Quebec cinematography while she started to veer towards documentary cinema. Over the past two decades, Léa Pool has produced several international co-productions, as well as her greatest public success: La passion d’Augustine (2015). Her work has been regularly honored around the world, earning her prestigious distinctions
On sera heureux, 101 min, Fiction, 2025
Hôtel silence, 101 min, Fiction,, 2022
Et au pire on se mariera, 91 min, Fiction, 2017
Double peine, 103 min, Documentary, 2016
La passion d’Augustine, 103 min, Fiction, 2015
L’industrie du ruban rose, 97 min, Documentary, 2011
La dernière fugue, 92 min, Fiction, 2009
Maman est chez le coiffeur, 99 min, Fiction, 2008
The Blue Butterfly, 97 min, Fiction, 2002
Lost and Delirious, 103 min, Fiction, 2000
Emporte-moi, 102 min, Fiction, 1999
Gabrielle Roy, 77 min, Documentary, 1998
- À corps perdu, 92 min, Fiction, 1998
- Mouvements du désir, 93 min, Fiction, 1994
- Montréal vu par… Six variations sur un thème, 125 min, Fiction, 1992
- La Demoiselle sauvage, 105 min, Fiction, 1991
- Hotel Chronicles, 74 min, Documentary, 1990
- Anne Trister, 105 min, Fiction, 1986
- La Femme de l’hôtel, 89 min, Fiction, 1984
- Strass Café, 61 min, Fiction, 1980
- Laurent Lamerre, portier, 16 min, Documentary, 1978