Movies: Mireille Dansereau

  • 1987
    Deaf to the City

    Deaf to the City (1987)

    Deaf to the City

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    The folks who populate the rundown hotel in this story have all come there from someplace which offered a modicum of hope. Gloria, who runs the place, earns most of her money as a stripper. She lives there with her two daughters and a son with an unt...

    Deaf to the City
  • 1972
    Dream Life

    Dream Life (1972)

    Dream Life

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    Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies....

    Dream Life
  • 2014
    Le Pier

    Le Pier (2014)

    Le Pier

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    What do we know about childhood other than the constructions we make of it? A little girl died inside the day her father left. As an adult, she is still there, frozen, stuck in the sand, ready to dissolve in the storm of her childhood. But is he real...

    Le Pier
  • 1977
    Famille et Variations

    Famille et Variations (1977)

    Famille et Variations

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    a portrait of the changing social and political context of the nuclear family in the 1970s, focusing on four families of varying circumstances: a traditional nuclear family with a special needs child, a separated family, a single-parent family and a ...

    Famille et Variations
  • 1962
    Alone or with Others

    Alone or with Others (1962)

    Alone or with Others

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    At the end of the year 1961, three young students, Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, decide to direct a feature-length film centered on the perks of student life. The film mixes fiction and reality in the style of cinéma vérité. "Alone o...

    Alone or with Others
  • 2019
    Vu pas vue

    Vu pas vue (2019)

    Vu pas vue

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    A filmmaker explores the difficulty of being a woman, provoked by the porn films found among the belongings her father left behind. ‘Is pornography love?’ she asks herself. Watching these 8mm porn films becomes her way of creating a connection with ‘...

    Vu pas vue
  • 1968
    Compromise

    Compromise (1968)

    Compromise

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    Madeleine, a young French Canadian woman, goes to London to study English literature. She meets a young actor, Peter, who has just graduated from school and is unemployed....

    Compromise
  • 1973
    J'me marie, j'me marie pas

    J'me marie, j'me marie pas (1973)

    J'me marie, j'me marie pas

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    Feature-length documentary directed by Mireille Danserau in 1973: in-depth interviews with four young women who explain their complex relationships with men, motherhood and their own femininity, sometimes radically detaching themselves from the stand...

    J'me marie, j'me marie pas
  • 1996
    Les marchés de Londres (1969-1996)

    Les marchés de Londres (1969-1996) (1996)

    Les marchés de Londres (1969-1996)

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    The story of two characters that we hear but never see. The film begins with a young student filming the London Markets in 1969. 25 years later, she invites a man to watch the film about his youth. The couple converse over the footage from that time,...

    Les marchés de Londres (1969-1996)
  • 1969
    Forum

    Forum (1969)

    Forum

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    Recording of a tense discussion between three people around the question of "revolution". Steve Ben Israel (member of the Living Theatre), James Cellan (BBC director) and David Autie (sculptor) confront each other in a debate that provoked a strong p...

    Forum
  • 2024
    MIROIR no 1

    MIROIR no 1 (2024)

    MIROIR no 1

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    Paddling a kayak on a Quebec lake, a woman remembers her son and the first time he saw himself in a mirror. Having been able to accompany him in this event, the reminiscence brings her great joy. Mireille Dansereau has produced a personal film in whi...

    MIROIR no 1
  • 1994
    Les seins dans la tête

    Les seins dans la tête (1994)

    Les seins dans la tête

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    What place do breasts occupy in the identity of women? Intersecting several voices--adolescent girls, mothers, lesbians, dancers, bodybuilders...--this film draws a mosaic portrait of the breast, from childhood to maturity, from seduction to illness,...

    Les seins dans la tête
  • 2012
    Étude pour un lit et une baignoire

    Étude pour un lit et une baignoire (2012)

    Étude pour un lit et une baignoire

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    Montage of archives filmed in 1971....

    Étude pour un lit et une baignoire
  • 1996
    Les cheveux en quatre

    Les cheveux en quatre (1996)

    Les cheveux en quatre

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    As much as hair is directly linked to appearance, displaying personality and belonging to a group, it is also intimately linked to being. How many spiritual rites, practiced here as elsewhere, testify to this. The being and the appearance...we are fa...

    Les cheveux en quatre
  • 1992
    Entre elle et moi

    Entre elle et moi (1992)

    Entre elle et moi

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    Madeleine Dansereau was the first woman jeweller in Quebec. She started her career at the age of 47, just when doctors diagnosed her as having breast cancer. Her best known achievement was the Emblem for the National Order of Quebec. Her daughter, Mi...

    Entre elle et moi
  • 2000
    Dark Intent

    Dark Intent (2000)

    Dark Intent

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    A poetic meditation by a man and a woman whose teenage son has threatened to end his life. What drives someone to that terrible extreme? In an effort to understand and demystify the phenomenon of suicide, the two parents search for answers within the...

    Dark Intent
  • 2005
    Louisiane, pour mémoire

    Louisiane, pour mémoire (2005)

    Louisiane, pour mémoire

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    This documentary captures the road-trip odyssey of Canadian filmmaker Mireille Dansereau as she travels to Louisiana to screen one of her films — inspired by the works of her friend, Marie-Claire Blais — and seek her cinematic identity in the process...

    Louisiane, pour mémoire
  • 1982
    Le Frère André

    Le Frère André (1982)

    Le Frère André

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    A look at the life of André Bessette through expert interviews and interviews with people who knew him....

    Le Frère André
  • 1967
    Moi, un jour

    Moi, un jour (1967)

    Moi, un jour

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    A 14-year-old girl talks about the boredom of her middle-class environment and puts her father and mother on trial. A walk on the mountain with her dog is a pretext to see life through the eyes of this teenager who feels foreign to the world around h...

    Moi, un jour
  • 1979
    L'Arrache-cœur

    L'Arrache-cœur (1979)

    L'Arrache-cœur

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    A woman's marriage is in crisis as a result of her difficult and complex relationship with her mother....

    L'Arrache-cœur