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![]() Director André Forcier and actress Hélène Reeves at a
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Directed by | André Forcier |
Written by | André Forcier |
Produced by | Linda Pinet |
Starring |
Céline Bonnier Roy Dupuis Paolo Noël Gaston Lepage Louise Laparé Julie du Page |
Cinematography | Daniel Jobin |
Edited by | Linda Pinet |
Music by |
Michel Cusson Kim Gaboury |
Production company | Films du Paria |
Distributed by | Atopia |
Release date |
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Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Coteau Rouge is a 2011 French-Canadian ( Quebec) film written and directed by André Forcier and produced by Les Films du Paria. [1]
The offbeat comedy from André Forcier is about the Blanchard family, a tightknit group living in Coteau Rouge on the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River in Longueuil. The grandfather of the clan (Paolo Noël) was once a fisherman who togot rid of bodies for the mob. His son (Lepage) runs the local gas station and has two children: Hélène ( Céline Bonnier) and Henri. Hélène is childless and so her mother (Louise Laparé) is carrying her baby. Meanwhile, her husband ( Roy Dupuis), an unscrupulous entrepreneur, wants to buy up the land to build an upscale condo.
The film won Best Canadian Film at the Montreal World Film Festival. [2]