Catimini

Catimini
Film poster
Directed byNathalie Saint-Pierre
Written byNathalie Saint-Pierre
Produced byNicolas Comeau
Nathalie Saint-Pierre
StarringÉmilie Bierre
Joyce-Tamara Hall
Rosine Chouinard-Chauveau
Frédérique Paré
CinematographyNathalie Moliavko-Visotzky
Edited byNathalie Saint-Pierre
Production
companies
Distributed byAxia Films
Release date
Running time
111 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Catimini is a Canadian drama film, directed by Nathalie Saint-Pierre and released in 2012.[1] The film tells the stories of four young girls living as wards of the provincial child protection department.[2]

The cast includes Émilie Bierre as Cathy, Joyce-Tamara Hall as Kayla, Rosine Chouinard-Chauveau as Mégane, Frédérique Paré as Manu, Isabelle Vincent as Réjanne, and Roger La Rue as Raynald.

Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette singled out the performances of the four main child actors for praise, writing that "the four young actors playing the girls are all amazing, so good that you'll be forgiven for thinking Saint-Pierre actually went and cast real kids from the youth protection world, which she did not."[3]

The film premiered on August 24, 2012 at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival,[4] before premiering commercially in January 2013.[5]

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Catimini – Film de Nathalie Saint-Pierre". Films du Québec, December 15, 2012.
  2. ^ Helen Faradji, "Catimini en quelques pages". Ici Radio-Canada, August 17, 2018.
  3. ^ Brendan Kelly, "No heroes, no villains, just grim reality; Quebec writer/director tells a tough, fictional story of four girls under the care of the province's youth protection system". Montreal Gazette, January 25, 2013.
  4. ^ "«Catimini» de Nathalie Saint-Pierre sera en competition au Festival d'Angoulême". Canadian Press, August 8, 2012.
  5. ^ "Le film québécois Catimini nous plonge dans l'univers des familles d'accueil". Le Téléjournal, January 22, 2013.