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Synopsis
The short film festival, Regard sur le court métrage au
Saguenay, has a tradition of inviting guest directors to create an
improvised short film in the space of 48 hours, and to present it as
part of the programme. The 2007 it was the turn of Francis Leclerc, who
took on the challenge, accompanied by his Mémoires affectives
stars, Roy Dupuis and Rosa Zacharie.
On the Thursday evening in the La Voie
Maltée bar in Jonquière, the team were presented with a number of
constraints dreamed up by the clientele:
- a character dressed in 80's clothes;
filming at Bagotville airport and the local cheese factory Boivin de
La Baie; a waterfall; a mass; a scooter; the phrase "What do you
think, no teeth?"; the sound of a kazoo.
In addition, they had to persuade the
mayor of Saguenay, Jean Tremblay, to appear as an extra, and Roy imposed
a condition of his own – that Francis Leclerc make his first onscreen
appearance in the film.
The Return of the title is the
unexpected reappearance after 4 years of the ex-wife (Rosa Zacharie) of
cheese maker Patrick (Sylvain Marcel – Bon Cop Bad Cop).
Filming began on the Friday, and at 5pm
on Saturday the world premiere was projected on an outdoor screen made
of snow, next door to the bus station in Chicoutimi. It was shown
later, indoors, as part of the normal programme. |
