Love Me (1991 film)

Love Me
FrenchLove-moi
Directed byMarcel Simard
Written byMarcel Simard
Lise Lemay-Rousseau
Produced byFrançois Bouvier
Doris Girard
Marcel Simard
StarringGermain Houde
Paule Baillargeon
Lucie Laurier
CinematographyPierre Letarte
Edited byMichel Arcand
Music byRobert Léger
Frédéric Weber
Production
companies
National Film Board of Canada
Les Productions du Lundi Matin
Les Productions Virage
Distributed byAska Film
Release date
  • 15 February 1991 (1991-02-15)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Love Me (French: Love-moi) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Marcel Simard and released in 1991.[1] The film stars Germain Houde as Charles, a theatre director who enlists a troubled group of street youths to write and perform in a theatre show about their lives after one of their gang is murdered.[2]

The cast includes Paule Baillargeon, Mario Saint-Amand, Yvon Roy, Lucie Laurier, Sonia Laplante, Éric Brisebois, Dominique Leduc, Lyne Durocher, Hugolin Chevrette, Stéphane Demers, Denis Bouchard, Claire Pimparé, Marc Désourdy, Ducarmel Cyrius, Léa-Marie Cantin and Lénie Scoffié.

The film premiered in theatres in February 1991.[2]

Jo Caron, Yvon Benoît and Michel Descombes received a Genie Award nomination for Best Overall Sound at the 12th Genie Awards.[3]

  1. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 131.
  2. ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Love-moi – Film de Marcel Simard". Films du Québec, March 1, 2009.
  3. ^ Christopher Harris, "Black Robe leads race for Genies Film community notes surprising omissions in list of nominees". The Globe and Mail, October 10, 1991.