Confession of Pain Confession of Pain
Jul
18
2008

Francis Leclerc Gets All Nostalgic On Us …

Posted by Todd Brown at 2:10pm.

Posted in Trailer Alerts , Drama, USA & Canada, Toronto Film Festival 2008.

Sometimes I swear I’m just a tiny bit psychic.  While walking through the Montreal streets with the lady-friend while attended Fantasia I commented on how I really needed to recruit someone to better cover Canadian film here in the pages of Twitch.  Sure, making fun of the local industry is like shooting fish in a barrel but there are a lot of talented film makers up here - Quebec, in particular, has a very strong film culture - and I always feel a bit bad that we don’t do more to cover our local productions.  And while reaching for examples of local folk who deserve some love the first name to pop to mind was Memoires Affectives director Francis Leclerc.  His scripts are smart, he shoots gorgeous film, he handles his actors exceptionally well and in my mind he sits up there with C.R.A.Z.Y.‘s Jean Marc Valle as the brightest up and comers in Quebec and yet, bizarrely, he gets no love whatsoever in the English media.  “Hmm”, thought I, “he must be about due to release something new by now, too.”

Et voila.  The next day the Toronto International Film Festival held their Canadian film press conference and there he was, with his new picture, Un été sans point ni coup sûr.  This one looks very different from Memoires Affectives, but no less impressive.  Like Valle’s C.R.A.Z.Y. it is a memoir of Montreal in the late sixties and like Valle’s film it looks very, very impressive. 

Check out the trailer in the Twitch Player below the break.  And, yes, we’ve got a new Canuck correspondent.  He’ll be saying hello shortly.

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