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Lost and Delirious

Canada

2001

102 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
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DIR Léa Pool

PROD Lorraine Richard, Greg Dummett, Louis-Philippe Rochon

SCR Judith Thompson

DP Pierre Gill

CAST Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, Mischa Barton, Jackie Burroughs, Graham Greene, Mimi Kuzyk, Emily VanCamp, Amy Stewart, Caroline Dhavernas, Luke Kirby, Alan Fawcett, Peter Oldring, Grace Lynn Kung, Stephen Mwinga

ED Gaëtan Huot

PROD DES Serge Bureau

MUSIC Yves Chamberland

Sundance (Premieres), Berlinale (Panorama), Mar del Plata: Cinematography Award, Stockholm (Open Zone): Audience Award, Queer Lisboa (Lésbicas)

Synopsis

Mouse Bradford has just arrived at Perkins Girl’s College. She has left behind the small town where she grew up, her father and her stepmother. Mouse is quickly adopted by her two senior roommates, the striking, sharp-witted Paulie and the charming and beautiful Tory. The three become inseparable as they bond over loss: Mouse has lost her mother, Paulie has lost the parents who gave her up for adoption, and Tory is losing herself to fit her parents’ expectations.Although they are the closest friends she has ever had, Mouse is confused by the depth of the relationship between Paulie and Tory. The world comes crashing down when Tory and Paulie are inadvertently caught in a compromising situation. Unable to justify their relationship to her family, Tory gives in to the pressure and distances herself from Paulie and her own feelings. Mouse, torn between her friends, begins to understand what it means to be in love – and just how much of love is impossible to define. — Telefilm Canada

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Léa Pool

Léa Pool (born 8 September, 1950 in Switzerland) is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who has also taught film at UQAM. She is openly lesbian. Her 1986 film Anne Trister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 1999 film Emporte-moi was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

Her film À corps perdu (1988) was selected for official competition in the Venice Film Festival and her film Mouvements du désir (1994) was screened at the Sundance Film Festival.She has been nominated 3 times for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction for her films La Femme de l’hôtel (1984), Mouvements du désir (1994), and Emporte-moi (1999). In 2006 she was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier. —Wikipedia 

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My favorite lesbian movie of all time.

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What's in a name? - 3 stars

By lolo341 on November 26, 2011

Lost and Delirious becomes exactly that about two thirds of the way through, which is a shame because the first half of the movie is very good. The story begins with Mouse. After her mom dies, she…  read review

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