Country: Canada
Year: 2011
Duration: 107'
Dolbeau-Mistassini, Northern Quebec. Marcel Lévesque is a car salesman who will soon be retiring. Named employee of the month for years now at the salesroom where he has always worked, there are only two things that keep him going, besides his job: his daughter Maryse, and his grandson Antoine. During a winter that seems never-ending and with the city’s car industry destined to shut down because of a crisis that seems hopeless, the man has just one objective: to keep being number one. “Marcel Lévesque is that person who has left home materially and spiritually, to join the system the way you join a religion, to paraphrase William H. Whyte via Jack Kerouac. In Dust Bowl Ha! Ha!, I wanted to show a man who never learned to live any other way than through his work. The loss of his job would expose failure and alienation. The Salesman works on a similar principle. Marcel Lévesque has reached a turning point in his life, where his old bearings seem to be disappearing.”
Biography
film director
Sébastien Pilote
Sébastien Pilote (Canada, 1973) got his degree in art and film from the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi and then worked as a programmer at the Festival Regard sur le court métrage in Saguenay. He next directed almost one hundred TV investigations on social topics and received four nominations for the Prix Gémeaux. In 2007 he directed his first short, Dust Bowl Ha! Ha!, which competed at many international festivals and won awards such as Quebec’s Film Critics Association Award, Best Short at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal and the Grand Prix at the Short Film Festival of Barcelona. His first feature film, Le vendeur (2011), was presented at over sixty festivals, including Sundance, Salonicco and the Torino Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Award. His second feature, Le démantèlement (2014), was selected for the International Critics’ Week at Cannes, and won FIPRESCI Award in Turin. La disparition des lucioles is his third feature.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! (cm, 2007), Le vendeur (2011), Le démantèlement (2013), La disparition des lucioles (2018)
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Sébastien Pilote
fotografia/cinematography
Michel La Veaux
montaggio/film editing
Michel Arcand
scenografia/production design
Mario Hervieux
costumi/costume design
Sophie Lefebvre
musica/music
Pierre Lapointe, Philippe Brault
suono/sound
Gilles Corbeil, Olivier Calvert, Stéphane Bergeron
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Gilbert Sicotte (Marcel Lévesque), Nathalie Cavezzali (Maryse), Jérémy Tessier (Antoine), Jean-François Boudreau (François Paradis), Pierre Leblanc (il direttore commerciale/Sales Manager)
produttori/producers
Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
produzione/production
Acpav
vendita all’estero/world sales
eOne Films International
TFF
prizes
