Before My Heart Falls

Before My Heart Falls
Film poster
FrenchAvant que mon cœur bascule
Directed bySébastien Rose
Written byStéfanie Lasnier
Sébastien Rose
Produced byPaul Barbeau
StarringClémence Dufresne-Deslières
Sophie Lorain
Sébastien Ricard
CinematographyNicolas Bolduc
Edited byPhilippe Melançon
Production
company
Reprise Films
Release date
  • September 14, 2012 (2012-09-14) (FCVQ)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Before My Heart Falls (French: Avant que mon cœur bascule) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sébastien Rose and released in 2012.[1] The film centres on Sarah (Clémence Dufresne-Deslières), a young con artist who regularly fakes a crisis on the side of the road so that she can rob men who stop to help her; however, after one of her cons results in a man's accidental death, she befriends the man's grieving widow Françoise (Sophie Lorain) while simultaneously trying to maintain her relationship with her crime boss Ji-Guy (Sébastien Ricard).[2]

The film premiered on September 14, 2012 at the Quebec City Film Festival,[3] before opening commercially on November 12.[4]

Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette gave the film a mixed review, praising Dufresne-Deslières's performance as a "force of nature" but concluding that the film ultimately "just doesn't have the emotional punch it should have".[5]

The film received two Prix Jutra nominations at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013, for Best Supporting Actor (Ricard) and Best Supporting Actress (Lorain).[6]

The film was broadcast by Ici Radio-Canada Télé in 2019.[7]

References

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Avant que mon coeur bascule – Film de Sébastien Rose". Films du Québec, October 16, 2012.
  2. ^ "Avant que mon coeur bascule: point de bascule". La Presse, November 10, 2012.
  3. ^ "Une pièce de Coeur de pirate au cinéma". La Presse, August 29, 2012.
  4. ^ Véronique Lauzon, "Tapis rouge Avant que mon cœur bascule". Le Journal de Montréal, November 12, 2012.
  5. ^ Brendan Kelly, "Newcomer is force of nature but her first movie isn't; Intriguing local film has lots of originality but for some reason seems to lack impact". Montreal Gazette, November 16, 2012.
  6. ^ "Jutra : Laurence anyways et Rebelle en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, January 31, 2013.
  7. ^ Helen Faradji, "3 bonnes raisons de (re)découvrir Avant que mon cœur bascule". Ici Radio-Canada, July 3, 2019.


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