Category: Cinéma Québécois
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Isolation and Desire: The Psychological Landscape of Tom at the Farm
Written by Zheng Cheng for Justine McLellan’s Cinema Styles course Tom at the Farm (2013), a psychological thriller directed by Xavier Dolan, tells the story of Tom, a young man from Montreal, who attends his deceased boyfriend’s – Guillaume – funeral in rural Quebec. At the remote farm, Tom struggles when he develops an abnormal…
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Denis Villeneuve’s Memorial: Honoring or Deceiving?
Written by Aïyana Faye-Giard for Kim Simard’s … class At the end of the 20th century, just as the world was slowly recovering from two World Wars, a violent tragedy shook the province of Quebec. On December 6, 1989, fourteen women were brutally murdered on the Polytechnique campus, in response to a young man’s anti-feminist…
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Migration, Memory, and Identity: Kim Thúy’s Journey from Vietnam to Québec
Written by Berdie Pidika Matondo for Justine McLellan’s Cinema and Culture course Ru is a 2023 Québécois film directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud based on Kim Thúy’s 2009 novel of the same name. Both works recount the story of a Vietnamese family that migrates to Quebec in 1978, three years after the Vietnam war. The adaptation…
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