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La disparition des lucioles (Film d'ouverture)
By
Sébastien PiloteDuration
96 MIN
Language
French
Subtitles
English
Country
Quebec
Year
2018
Synopsis
The sleepy industrial town tucked away in a small bay doesn’t offer young Léo much chance of self-fulfilment. She despises her life with her mother and stepfather while nurturing romantic notions about her distant father. It is not until an encounter with timid guitarist Steve, however, that she manages to pull herself out of her lethargy. The captivating Karelle Tremblay in the role of the spontaneous yet defiant girl injects the coming-of-age story with an infectious energy which is superbly complemented by the picture’s stylistic precision. Despite the quasi-pop feel to the film in places, Sébastien Pilote maintains an impressionistic slant to his direction that lends this tale of elusive happiness a lightly dreamlike quality.
Direction
Sébastien Pilote
In 2010, he directed his first feature film The Salesman (Le vendeur), which was shown in ompetition at the Sundance Film Festival. The film won awards at numerous festivals and enjoyed a successful theatrical run at home. After having won the FIPRESCI Award (Turin, Mannheim and San Francisco), The Salesman received the Gilles-Carle Prize for best debut feature and the Luc-Perrault Prize of the AQCC for best Quebec feature of the year. His second feature, The Auction (Le démantèlement), was selected for the International Critics' Week at Cannes, where it won the SACD Prize for Best Screenplay. It also received the Best Feature Prize at the Trophées francophones du cinéma of 2014. The same year, the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) honored the film with its award at the Turin festival.
Editing
Stéphane Lafleur
Cinematographer
Michel La Veaux
Cast
Karelle Tremblay
Pierre-Luc Brillant
François Papineau
Luc Picard
Marie-France Marcotte
Original Title
La disparition des lucioles (Film d'ouverture)
English Title
The Fireflies Are Gone
