Café de Flore

Canada, France

2011

129 Min

Color

2.35:1

French

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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PROD Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin

CAST Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu, Joanny Corbeil-Picher, Evelyne de la Chenelière, Rosalie Fortier, Émile Vallée, Chanel Fontaine, Michel Dumont, Linda Smith, Pascal Elso

SOUND Jean Minondo, Martin Pinsonnault

Venice (Venice Days), Toronto (Special Presentations), AFI FEST (World Cinema), Göteborg (Festivalfavoriter), CPH PIX (European Voices)

Synopsis

A love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. The film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently-divorced, successful DJ in present day Montreal. What binds the two stories together is love – euphoric, obsessive, tragic, youthful, timeless love. «C.R.A.Z.Y. had set a challenge that Café de Flore has managed to meet, with the difference that the latter film explores in greater depth the realm of fantasy, confronting new themes […] C.R.A.Z.Y. literally gave me the wings to fly up high, to push me to explore unknown territories. Café de Flore is the fruit of this flight I took». (Jean-Marc Vallée) –Venice Days

Director

Jean-Marc Vallée

(Montréal) studied Film at the Ahuntsic Collège and at the University of Montréal. In 1995 he made his feature debut with LISTE NOIRE (BLACK LIST) which was a roaring success with the public and was honored with nine Genie Award nominations. Ten years later, he returned to French-language features with the internationally acclaimed hit, C.R.A.Z.Y., selected for the Venice Days, distributed in over fifty countries and winning some twenty international festival awards – including the prestigious Best Canadian Film prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, 11 Genie Awards, 15 Jutra Awards, and the Golden Reel Award. In 2010 THE YOUNG VICTORIA, produced by Graham King and Martin Scorsese, won an Oscar for Best Costumes in 2010 and received nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Makeup. —venice-days.com

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Annie Gentil

13May12

A nice film to watch - Several lives intertwined and the whole film to try and guess the link between this mother bringing up her disabled son in the 60s and this successful Canadian DJ. I loved the mix between the 2 stories and the nice twist at the end...