Gaspard et fil$ (Gaspard and $on)
Director: François Labonté
Screenplay: Monique Proulx
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Gaspard et fil$ is a comedy inspired by Monique
Proulx's novel Bennie et fils. Forty-year-old Claude Chuinard and his father
Gaspard (respectively Gaston Lepage and Jacques Godin, the stenographer and
inspector from Being at Home with Claude), have an uneasy truce since the death
of their mother/wife 11 years previously. They travel from Montreal to New York
and finally to Venezuela in search of a missing lottery ticket, while their
mutual dislike for one another continues unabated.
Roy plays a very small non-speaking role. Accompanied by some avant garde music,
he helps pull some large sheets of clear perspex onto the stage, then an artist squirts
paint onto the plastic from tubes in his gloves - kind of Jackson Pollock meets
Minority Report! As the captures show, his offstage costume is even more exotic
than his onstage one.
Perhaps one for the serious Roy completionist only.