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"I'm modern but I'm not modish", says agronomist-turned-apiarist Albert to the cheeky-pesky ghost of Brother Marie-Victorin, F.S.C. The beloved founding father of Montreal's Botanical Garden is these days AWOL from the boredom that is heaven. It is Forcier himself there speaking through his perennially confused though brilliant protagonist, for that's what he is: an auteur whose films are curious concoctions made in equal parts of full contact Tropico-Surrealism and precisely observed social indignities. An explosive mix that never suffered the insult of being 'hot', but remained a misfit art for all those with a non-conformist heart. Les fleurs oubliées shows how an alternative community is born: a mead-mad bunch made up of punks, eco-warriors, hippies and whosoever else rebukes the cultural mainstream but is too fun-loving for depression. Forcier's is a wilfully vulnerable modernism for gentle souls who take it easy – a group of viewers rarely targeted in recent decades. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(more)Cast
Roy Dupuis
Canada
Best movies:
Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
Maurice Richard (2005)
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Yves Jacques
Canada
Best movies:
Aurore (2005)
Hold-Up (1985)
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Christine Beaulieu
Best movies:
Life with My Father (2005)
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Le Mirage (2015)
Juliette Gosselin
Canada
Best movies:
You're Sleeping Nicole (2014)
Martyrs (2008)
Boost (2017)
Émile Schneider
Canada
Best movies:
Temporaries (2023)
Mylène MacKay
Canada
Best movies:
Genesis (2018)
Endorphine (2015)
Brain Freeze (2021)
Donald Pilon
Canada
Best movies:
Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole (1983) (TV movie)
A Man Called Intrepid (1979) (series)
The Uncanny (1977)
Gaston Lepage
Best movies:
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
The Age of Ignorance (2007)
France Castel
Canada
Best movies:
Omerta, la loi du silence (1996) (series)
Les 3 P'tits Cochons (2007)
Cosmos (1996)
Dorothée Berryman
Canada
Best movies:
The Red Violin (1998)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Louis Champagne
Canada
Best movies:
Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
Tania Kontoyanni
Canada
Best movies:
Saint-Narcisse (2020)
Louise Laparé
Best movies:
Chasing Rainbows (1988) (series)
The Gunrunner (1989)
New France (2004)
Shoshana Wilder
Best movies:
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)
Les Tuche 2: The American Dream (2015)