https://myetvmedia.com/film-review/a-dangerous-method-press-conference-and-review/

Café de Flore is up for 13 Genie nominations.

Café de Flore is directed by Jean-Marc Vallée who has brought a number of awarding wining films to the screen including; Young Victoria and C.R.A.Z.Y. Café de Flore is up for 13 Genie nominations.Vallée wrote and directed this beautiful, suspenseful, complicated love story that is intricately woven together between two worlds by music. The film stars Vanessa Paradis up for a Genie nom for best actress.

Mystic forces; destiny, fate, love and loss weave the film’s characters together in an intricate manner that defies time and space. Human emotions are not fully expressed without the element of sexuality.Vallée brings the power of the characters’ sexuality fully on screen.

Vanessa Paradis (Jaqueline) is the mother of Laurent a young, Down’s Syndrome boy whom she adores and lives for. He is the centre of her universe. He loves the jazz album ‘Café de Flore’ and insists on listening to it constantly. They live in Paris, France and it is the year 1969. Is there room in Jacqueline’s world for anyone else to love Laurent? Will the attentions of another young girl with Down’s Syndrome suddenly open a crack in the cocoon Jacqueline has spun?

This film is at the top of Canada’s Feature Films this year. It premiered at the Venice International Film Fest and then went on to TIFF. It is an unusual film; powerful, engaging and in some ways shocking. ‘Café de Flore’ missed an Oscar nomination in the best Foreign Film category, which went to the Monsieur Lazhar.

https://myetvmedia.com/film-review/cafe-de-flore-review/

https://myetvmedia.com/film-review/young-victoria/

Monsieur Lazhar is nominated for a number of Genies including Best Picture.  Writer/director Philippe Falardeau has just returned from the Red Carpet where the film received an Oscar nominationfor Best Foreign Film. myETVmedia caught up with Philippe in LA to discuss the making of Monsieur Lazhar.

Monsieur Lazhar premiered at TIFF and won Best Canadian Feature Film this year. The same Oscar nominated production team that did “Incendies” brings us this beautiful, sensitive story.

Phillipe Falardeau based some of his work in this film on his own unique experience travelling around the middle-east for a year making movie segments for a reality show 20 years ago. The experience made him very sympathetic to the reality of being an immigrant. He also missed the opportunity to visit Algeria because of political unrest at the time. He felt a great connection with the character and the actor Fellag who plays Monsieur Lazhar. The screenplay written by Falardeau is surprisingly based on a one man play by Evelyne de la Chenelière.

https://myetvmedia.com/feature/oscar-mania-monsieur-lazhar/