Desire in Motion

Desire in Motion
Mouvements du désir
Directed byLéa Pool
Written byLéa Pool
Produced byDenise Robert
StarringJean-François Pichette
Valérie Kaprisky
CinematographyPierre Mignot
Edited byMichel Arcand
Music byZbigniew Preisner
Release date
  • February 3, 1994 (1994-02-03) (RVCQ)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Desire in Motion (French: Mouvements du désir) is a French-Canadian drama film, directed by Lea Pool and released in 1994.[1]

Inspired by texts such as Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, Francesco Alberoni's Falling in Love and the autobiography of Carl Jung,[2] the film stars Jean-François Pichette and Valérie Kaprisky as Vincent and Catherine, a man and woman falling in love as they meet and get acquainted on a train trip to Vancouver.[3]

The film premiered at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois on February 3, 1994.[4]

  1. ^ "Queen of melancholy puts a love story on the rails: Jean-Francois Pichette and Valerie Kaprisky in Mouvements du Desir". Montreal Gazette, January 6, 1994.
  2. ^ "Director mines deep veins of love's nuances". Toronto Star, June 24, 1994.
  3. ^ "A love story with brains and beauty". Toronto Star, June 24, 1994.
  4. ^ "Moving Mouvements opens festival of Quebec cinema". Montreal Gazette, February 4, 1994.