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5.4/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Country
  
Canada

Montreal Stories movie poster

Director
  
Denys Arcand Michel Brault Atom Egoyan Jacques Leduc Lea Pool Patricia Rozema

Release date
  
1991

Writer
  
Paule Baillargeon (segment), Michel Brault (segment), Atom Egoyan (segment)

Directors
  
Denys Arcand, Atom Egoyan, Lea Pool, Patricia Rozema, Michel Brault, Jacques Leduc

Music director
  
Mychael Danna, Osvaldo Montes, Jean Corriveau, Yves Laferriere, Diane Labrosse, Michel F. Cote

Screenplay
  
Atom Egoyan, Michel Brault, Paule Baillargeon

Cast
  
Denys Arcand
,
Michel Barrette
,
Maury Chaykin
,
Rémy Girard
,
Elise Guilbault
,
Yves Jacques

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Directed by Denys Arcand, Movies about Montreal, Anthology movies

Montreal Stories (French: Montréal vu par...), also titled as Montreal Sextet in some releases, is a Canadian drama film, released in 1991 as an homage to the city of Montreal on the occasion of its 350th anniversary. Written and directed by Denys Arcand, Michel Brault, Atom Egoyan, Jacques Leduc, Léa Pool and Patricia Rozema, the film is an anthology of six short films, one by each of the credited directors.

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Cast

Actors appearing in the films include Denys Arcand, Philippe Ayoub, Paule Baillargeon, Michel Barrette, Claude Blanchard, Domini Blythe, Geneviève Brouillette, Maury Chaykin, Anne Dorval, Rémy Girard, Élise Guilbault, Yves Jacques, Arsinée Khanjian, Alexandrine Latendresse, Charlotte Laurier, Véronique Le Flaguais, Robert Lepage, Maria del Mar, Sheila McCarthy, Monique Mercure, Jean-Louis Millette, Guylaine St-Onge, Raoul Trujillo and Guillermo Verdecchia.

Segments

  • "Desperanto" (Rozema) — A young housewife from Toronto (Sheila McCarthy) explores Montreal's nightlife.
  • "La Toile du temps" (Leduc) — The history of a painting of former Montreal mayor Jacques Viger.
  • "La Dernière partie" (Brault) — Madeleine (Hélène Loiselle) tries to tell Roger (Jean Mathieu) she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage.
  • "En passant" (Egoyan) — A visitor to a conference arrives at the airport.
  • "Rispondetemi" (Pool) — En route to the hospital in an ambulance after a car accident, Sarah (Anne Dorval) recalls her life.
  • "Vue d'ailleurs" (Arcand) — At a diplomatic reception, an older woman (Domini Blythe) reminisces about a love affair in Montreal in 1967.

    • References

    Montreal Stories Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Montreal Stories IMDb Montreal Stories themoviedb.org