Tuesday, November 24, 2015

RIDM 2015: Manoir



MANOR  - MANOIR
By MARTIN FOURNIER and PIER-LUC LATULIPPE

WORLD PREMIERE  -  REPORT ON QUEBEC 

2015 / Colour/ Canada - Quebec / 83 min. / French with English subtitles

The film was given the MAGNUS ISACSSON AWARD's  Special Mention at RIDM's Awards Ceremony. 

This films throws a light on some social issues mentally ill and disadvantaged people have to face in our modern society in Quebec. It posses the questions whether they receive an appropriate care and are provided with pleasant and stimulating, professionally ran environments, in order for them to feel as worthy and even active members of the community, as they can still play a valuable role despite there health and emotional difficulties. Just participating in this films proves that point. By telling us about themselves helps us to connect to our own humanity, and also to our caring for others.

In this film you meet some interesting, unusual people. You see how they care about each other, how they help each other in a rather difficult situation of being dislodged from what was their home for a long time. Moving is a very stressful event for anybody. But if you are ill and are not sure where you are going to go, where you will move, that must be even so much more stressful.

Watch the film and see how you feel about the people, your reactions to their situation. Look closer at those feelings as what they might tell you about yourself. 



Film's Official Synopsis

 “Whether mentally ill or caught in the grip of addiction, Michel, Paul, Johnny, Philippe, Nathalie and Gilles get by without any real care in Manoir Gaulin, a manor in name only. Looking like an abandoned motel, the private facility near downtown Saint-Hyacinthe, is a place steeped in misery. When a businessman announced plans to buy it, Martin Fournier (a member of the Amerika Orkestra collective, which made the stunning Daytona) and Pier-Luc Latulippe went inside to chronicle the difficult transition, resulting in a luminous, brilliantly directed film of great beauty and sadness, attentive to and respectful of its subjects’ distress.

Presented in collaboration with the CSN and Post-Moderne

COUNTRY : QUEBEC
YEAR : 2015
LANGUAGE : FRENCH
SUBTITLES : ENGLISH
RUNTIME : 83 MIN
PRODUCTION : PATRICIA BERGERON, MARTIN FOURNIER, PIER-LUC LATULIPPE
CINEMATOGRAPHY : OLIVIER TÉTRAULT
EDITING : JF LORD
SOUND : MARTIN ALLARD

CONTACT
PIER-LUC LATULIPPE
PL.LATULIP@GMAIL.COM

 

MARTIN FOURNIER

FILMOGRAPHY
DAYTONA (2004)

 

PIER-LUC LATULIPPE

FILMOGRAPHY
PREMIER LONG MÉTRAGE - FIRST FEATURE


For more information about the RIDM documentary film festival visit the RIDM website.

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