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cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema presents: Un 32 août sur terre (1998, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

April 8 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$11 – $14
Poster for the second iteration of Dr. Eric Fillion's cinema Francophone cinema series, featuring a black and white image of a desert landscape with inset black-and-white stills from the four different films. Text is replicated in the event listing.

IICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is bringing his cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema curated film series back to The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph, ON).

From January through April, Dr. Fillion will present one film per month. These four films share the common theme of Quebeckers on road trips through the deserts of the southwestern United States. This theme has a personal significance for Dr. Fillion, and so he looks forward to sharing these films with the local community. Intended for cinephiles and Francophones alike, these films (in French with subtitles) depict young protagonists as they hit the road as an escape and a respite, in search of thrills and adventure, connection and purpose, meaning and closure. The final film in this iteration of the series will be Un 32 août sur terre (1998), directed by Denis Villeneuve.

Each screening begins at 7 PM, with regular tickets costing $14 and member or student tickets priced at $11 (both are inclusive of taxes and fees). Dr. Fillion will introduce each film ahead of its showing.

Poster for Un 32 août sur terre. The poster is divided in half by a white background with the stylized title text, director credit, and producer credit. The top half of the poster features a person with short hair in a yellow t-shirt shielding their eyes against the sun, with blue sky in the background. The bottom portion of the image shows another person in a suit standing at the side of a long desert road stretching off towards a vanishing point in the centre of the poster.Un 32 août sur terre

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Year: 1998

Country: Canada (Quebec)

Running Time: 88 minutes

At 26, Simone is already rethinking her entire life after surviving a horrible car crash. She quits her job and heads off in search of her closest friend Philippe to ask him to have a child with her. Philippe is apprehensive, but finally agrees on condition that the conception occurs in the desert.

 

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