DVD Releases for the Week of Feb. 24, 2009
How about a little cross-coverage? Seeing as the Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois is this week, it’s only fitting that two of the films showing at the festival are also coming to DVD. A l’Ouest de Pluton (above) covers the stories of twelve teens in a 24-hour span. The actors were picked from a high school and thus the film is said to have a documentary feel (not unlike The Class). The title seems to point to disaffected youth “west of Pluto”, as one character becomes miffed by the fact that the distant rock has lost its planetary status. Read more »
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February 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Tonight marks the launch of the Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois running through to the end of the month. While the big tickets for most will include known Quebecois stars and directors, the real treat for filmgoers is discovering new talent and experiencing new audio/visual pleasures from our home province. One such discovery is director Denis Cote who has two films playing at the festival. Elle veut le chaos shot entirely in B&W and about a woman dealing with her psychologically unstable mother has the distinction of having been named one of Cahiers du Cinema film critic Jean-Michel Frodon’s top ten films of 2008. 
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