The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died

The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died 1977

5.20

A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.

1977

Dirty Money

Dirty Money 1972

6.20

After a raucous visit from the wealthy Uncle Arthur , working class Montreal couple Roland and Berthe are left feeling slighted by his meager gift of $500. Hungry for more, Berthe hatches a plan to descend on Uncle Arthur’s remote country house and steal his small fortune with the help of her delinquent brother and cousin. When the robbery spirals out of control, allegiances shift, blood is spilled, and Roland’s dimwitted lodger Ernest takes center stage in a harrowing battle for Arthur’s stolen cash.

1972

The Last Betrothal

The Last Betrothal 1973

5.50

After another cardiac arrest, Armand knows he doesn't have long left to live. But after more then 70 years in the same house, he doesn't want to die anywhere other than at home. His wife Rose has secretly decided she will die as she lived: with him.

1973

Those Damned Savages

Those Damned Savages 1971

7.30

A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.

1971

Réjeanne Padovani

Réjeanne Padovani 1973

6.20

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.

1973

Pigs Are Seldom Clean

Pigs Are Seldom Clean 1973

1

The true identity of an undercover RCMP narcotics agent is discovered by the criminals he is investigating and his family pays the price.

1973

The House of Light

The House of Light 1969

5.20

This plodding piece of cinematic ambiguity finds a married couple engaged in boring conversation in a window as scenery changes behind them. When they manage to talk about love, some of the tedium is lifted in the wake of their amorous verbiage. This black and white effort from Jean Pierre Lefebvre depends on symbolic impressionism rather than plot.

1969

Le gars des vues

Le gars des vues 1976

1

A situationist fable centered around Roger Cantin as a young artisanal filmmaker looking to find solace by making pictures.

1976

Corps et âme

Corps et âme 1972

1

Two friends are very close in college and in everyday life. During a pursuit between the car driven by one and the motorcycle of the other, an accident occurs; the motorcycle skids and its driver is killed. Karl, the survivor, begins to remember: their tennis games, their mutual friend, their games, their lessons, their holidays and their discussions. The film intersects all these memories to try to identify the deep friendship that bound the two teenagers and takes place in the present of Karl and the friend and in the past of memory. After having done everything to find his friend, even going so far as to dig him up in the cemetery in the middle of winter, Karl, appalled by his "murder", becomes more and more schizophrenic. He enters the hospital and stays there until the end of his days, fixated on this accident which turned his life upside down.

1972

To the Rhythm of my Heart

To the Rhythm of my Heart 1983

1

Made during Lefebvre's national tour of Canada for a 1981 retrospective of his films compiled by the Canadian Film Institute, the film is a video diary documenting both his philosophical and creative discussions on the co-operative movement in cinema as part of the tour and the concurrent illness and death of his wife, film editor and producer Marguerite Duparc. (Wikipedia)

1983