Paule Baillargeon

Set on an ice-encircled island in the St. Lawrence, this is a drama of passion and violence. An old man, attached to his ancestral home and...

Group of prostitutes who rely on each other to revolt against their sinister pimps. Their bid for freedom turns much more dangerous than they ever...

Three couples meet at one of them for a slide show evening. But nobody takes pleasure in this evening, where triumphs the banality of the exchanges:...

A woman learns secrets about her family while attending the funeral of her father.

Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle...

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for...

A career guidance film about scientific research that shows the scientist as a methodical explorer of the unknown.

Gina is a stripper at a popular local club. Everybody loves her and wants her. One night, a feared gang enters her motel room and gang-rape her...

After escaping unscathed from a car accident, photo model Simone decides that having a baby is the only way to give her vacant life some meaning. She...

A chronicle of the lives of a couple and the gradual dissolution of their relationship.

Two strangers have a fateful one-night stand in Montréal.

A group of youths open an organic restaurant.

The experiences of a volunteer in a clinic for terminally ill patients.

A lonely divorced woman spends her evening in her apartment listening to a phone-in radio show. As she listens to strangers talk candidly about their...

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills,...

Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by...

Trente tableaux is a 2011 autobiographical feature documentary by Quebec film director Paule Baillargeon, made during her two-year film residency...

The Ordinary Grand Film is the result of love at first sight with The Ordinary Grand Circus. With film and equipment borrowed from left and right,...

Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.

A day in the life of a Quebec magazine writer - his fortieth birthday - from his dream before waking to his last act before sleeping. He looks back...

Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary...

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.

An actor works as night watchman at a film studio where a musical serial killer strikes.

A stage director learns of his young actors' fears as they are setting up a new play.

Although he is something of a layabout, and is still living with his mother, her death comes as something of a shock to Louis Pelletier (Gilbert...

In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they...

30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings. One day, tired of...

A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as...

A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as...

Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first...