Country: Canada
Year: 2009
Duration: 87'
vital signs When Simone’s grandmother dies, the girl returns to Quebec City and finds herself involved in the daily events of life and death in a center for palliative cures. She radically reconsiders her existence and abandons her studies and her boyfriend to dedicate herself completely to the patients at the center. Boris, her boyfriend, doesn’t accept being dismissed this way and forces Simone to reflect on her sudden vocation, which perhaps is only a way for her to avoid facing up to her own weaknesses. “My fiction work always starts with a deep research and draws heavily on the world of documentary. Mixing experienced actors with newcomers and drawing from their past and singularities allows them to invest their characters personally. The camera can then capture the effect of time, the marks of accidents and the moments of delights that are left on their bodies and faces. A kind of transformative beauty becomes apparent, showing strength and fragility at once.”
Biography
film director
Sophie Deraspe
Sophie Deraspe (Rivière-du-Loup, Canada, 1973) moved to Austria to study photography and then returned to Canada, where she graduated in film from the University of Montreal. Alternating the roles of director and director of photography, she worked in documentaries and in television before making her first feature film, Rechercher Victor Pellerin (2006), which received a mention by the jury at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Moi, la mer, elle est belle (cm, doc., 1999), Saute la cloche (cm, 2003), Rechercher Victor Pellerin (Missing Victor Pellerin, 2006), Les signes vitaux (Vital Signs, 2009).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia/director, screenplay, cinematography
Sophie Deraspe
montaggio/film editing
S. Madeleine Leblanc
scenografia/production design
Antonin Sorel
costumi/costume design
Patricia Mc Neil
musica/music
Jean-François Laporte, Krista Muir
suono/sound
Frédéric Cloutier
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Marie-Hélène Bellavance (Simone), Francis Ducharme (Boris), Marie Brassard (Céline), Danielle Ouimet (la signora/Ms Perrin), Suzanne St-Michel (la signora/Mrs Mireault), Alan Fawcett (McNeil), Dominico Caputo (Cudici), Marc Marans (il dottor/Dr Luc Richard)
produttore/producer
Nicolas Fonseca
produzione/production
Les Films Siamois
vendita all’estero/world sales
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