Country: Canada
Year: 2013
Duration: 111'
Even though the farm he owns is called Gagnon & Fils, Gaby doesn’t have any sons – he has two daughters who grew up in the city and couldn’t care less about the countryside. One of his daughters is in the process of leaving her husband and asks Gaby for financial help. Gaby, who doesn’t have the money she needs, doesn’t think twice and does what has to be done for the love of his family. He sells the farm and its fields and moves into an apartment in the nearest town.
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)
Declaration
film director
“When I write, I set certain parameters. In the case of The Dismantlement, I wanted to build a story about a downward journey that would also be a story of heroism – the story of a beautiful loser. I wanted to build the film around a unique character, this time by surrounding him with a constellation of secondary characters. Finally, I wanted Gaby to meet the people close to him in succession, never together, to show that he himself is dismantled in a sense. You’re more creative when you have to work with constraints.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA
Sébastien Pilote
FOTOGRAFIA
Michel La Veaux
MONTAGGIO
Stéphane Lafleur
SCENOGRAFIA
Mario Hervieux
COSTUMI
Sophie Lefebvre
MUSICA
Serge Nakaushi Pelletier
SUONO
Gilles Corbeil, Olivier Calvert, Stéphane Bergeron
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Gabriel Arcand (Gaby Gagnon), Gilles Renaud (l’amico commercialista/accountant friend), Lucie Laurier (Marie Gagnon), Sophie Desmarais (Frédérique Gagnon), Johanne-Marie Tremblay (Françoise)
PRODUTTORI
Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
PRODUZIONE
ACPAV
CONTATTI
Entertainment One
Ruby Rondina
festival.requests@gmail.com
www.entertainmentone.com
Sébastien Pilote
FOTOGRAFIA
Michel La Veaux
MONTAGGIO
Stéphane Lafleur
SCENOGRAFIA
Mario Hervieux
COSTUMI
Sophie Lefebvre
MUSICA
Serge Nakaushi Pelletier
SUONO
Gilles Corbeil, Olivier Calvert, Stéphane Bergeron
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Gabriel Arcand (Gaby Gagnon), Gilles Renaud (l’amico commercialista/accountant friend), Lucie Laurier (Marie Gagnon), Sophie Desmarais (Frédérique Gagnon), Johanne-Marie Tremblay (Françoise)
PRODUTTORI
Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
PRODUZIONE
ACPAV
CONTATTI
Entertainment One
Ruby Rondina
festival.requests@gmail.com
www.entertainmentone.com
TFF
prizes
