A Montreal Girl

A Montreal Girl
French	La Fille de Montréal
Directed by	Jeanne Crépeau
Written by	Jeanne Crépeau
Produced by	Jeanne Crépeau
Starring	Amélie Grenier Réal Bossé Marie-Hélène Montpetit Jean Turcotte
Cinematography	Sylvaine Dufaux Mark Morgenstern
Edited by	Louise Dugal
Production company	Boxfilms
Release date	October 14, 2010 (2010-10-14) (FNC)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

A Montreal Girl (French: La Fille de Montréal) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jeanne Crépeau and released in 2010.[1] The film stars Amélie Grenier as Ariane, a lesbian filmmaker who has lived in the same apartment in Montreal's rapidly gentrifying Le Plateau-Mont-Royal district since her student days, but who is now confronted in her 40s with a renoviction notice giving her six months to vacate the apartment.[2]

The film also stars Réal Bossé, Marie-Hélène Montpetit and Jean Turcotte as Ariane's core circle of friends.

Semi-autobiographical, the film started out as a documentary about Crépeau's own real-life eviction from her longtime apartment before evolving into a narrative fiction film, and was shot in her real apartment.[3]

The film premiered at Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma in 2010,[2] before going into limited commercial release in early 2011.[4]

See also

• List of LGBT films directed by women

References

1. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Fille de Montréal, La – Film de Jeanne Crépeau". Films du Québec, January 17, 2011.
2. Robert Daudelin, "La fille de Montréal de Jeanne Crépeau". 24 images, Issue 149 (October–November 2010), p. 46.
3. Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Queer Film Festival: Montreal director Jeanne Crépeau's tale of eviction resonates with Vancouverites". The Georgia Straight, August 23, 2012.
4. "Tapis rouge pour La fille de Montréal". Le Devoir, January 25, 2011.

External links

• A Montreal Girl at IMDb