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PRENDS ÇA COURT! 10 Year Retrospective
For ten years, Prends ça court! has been giving Quebecers something to write home about. This program of nine shorts gives us a not-to-be-missed cross section of recent Quebecois cinema at its best. Sit back and prepare to be blown away!
| Red (Le rouge au sol) |
| After a tumultuous night out, an alcoholic man goes shopping with his mother. Through exquisite acting and writing, the ensuing car ride is filled with awkward chit-chat, until a moment of brutal honesty reveals the demons lurking inside both of them. |
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| Next Floor |
| At a luxurious banquet, guests gorge themselves on a phantasmagorical smorgasbord of delights. Everything goes according to plan until the floor gives way! |
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| Passage |
| This intense and mood-altering road trip takes us into the heart of an ecstasy-fueled bender that will forever change the lives of four friends. |
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| OIO |
| Frozen images become new again in splendid torrents of paint. Between the tool and the canvas lie the spectacular colours of nature that reinvent the world in the flow of paint. |
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| Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! |
| After 26 years of being Operator Number Three, a man struggles to adjust to life after redundancy. Over the course of a day we are drawn into his search for meaning as he adjusts to life on the other side of the factory floor. |
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| Danse Macabre |
| A still, lifeless body contorts in a final dance of death throes. The dead speak with spasms, twists and turns, recalling a life lived in flesh, and speculating on the afterlife. There is definitely vigour in this rigor mortis. |
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| One Month (Un mois) |
| A woman can't let go as sights, sounds and memories crowd her mind one month after a devastating breakup. |
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| The Drawer and the Crow (Le tiroir et le corbeau) |
| The arrival of a gorgeous woman is a seductive diversion for a young man distracted by a past love in this incredible stop motion animation which explores white-washing and blacking-out memories. |
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