A Montreal Girl

A Montreal Girl
FrenchLa Fille de Montréal
Directed byJeanne Crépeau
Written byJeanne Crépeau
Produced byJeanne Crépeau
StarringAmélie Grenier
Réal Bossé
Marie-Hélène Montpetit
Jean Turcotte
CinematographySylvaine Dufaux
Mark Morgenstern
Edited byLouise Dugal
Production
company
Boxfilms
Release date
  • October 14, 2010 (2010-10-14) (FNC)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

A Montreal Girl (French: La Fille de Montréal) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jeanne Crépeau and released in 2010.[1] The film stars Amélie Grenier as Ariane, a lesbian filmmaker who has lived in the same apartment in Montreal's rapidly gentrifying Le Plateau-Mont-Royal district since her student days, but who is now confronted in her 40s with a renoviction notice giving her six months to vacate the apartment.[2]

The film also stars Réal Bossé, Marie-Hélène Montpetit and Jean Turcotte as Ariane's core circle of friends.

Semi-autobiographical, the film started out as a documentary about Crépeau's own real-life eviction from her longtime apartment before evolving into a narrative fiction film, and was shot in her real apartment.[3]

The film premiered at Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma in 2010,[2] before going into limited commercial release in early 2011.[4]

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Fille de Montréal, La – Film de Jeanne Crépeau". Films du Québec, January 17, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Robert Daudelin, "La fille de Montréal de Jeanne Crépeau". 24 images, Issue 149 (October–November 2010), p. 46.
  3. ^ Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Queer Film Festival: Montreal director Jeanne Crépeau's tale of eviction resonates with Vancouverites". The Georgia Straight, August 23, 2012.
  4. ^ "Tapis rouge pour La fille de Montréal". Le Devoir, January 25, 2011.