Dream Life (film)

Dream Life
FrenchLa Vie rêvée
Directed byMireille Dansereau
Written byMireille Dansereau
Patrick Auzépy
Produced byGuy Bergeron
StarringLiliane Lemaître-Auger
Véronique Le Flaguais
CinematographyLouis de Ernsted
François Gill
Richard Rodrigue
Edited byDanielle Gagné
Music byEmmanuel Charpentier
Production
company
Release date
  • July 22, 1972 (1972-07-22)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Dream Life (French: La Vie rêvée) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Mireille Dansereau and released in 1972.[1] The first narrative fiction feature film from Quebec to be directed by a woman,[2] the film stars Liliane Lemaître-Auger and Véronique Le Flaguais as Isabelle and Virginie, colleagues at a film production company in Montreal, who dream of finding the perfect man but come to realize that reality doesn't live up to their fantasies.[3] It was the first privately produced feature film in Canada to be directed by a woman.[4]

The film won two Canadian Film Awards at the 24th Canadian Film Awards in 1972, for Best Editing (Danielle Gagné) and the Wendy Michener Award.[5]

It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films from throughout the history of Canadian cinema.[6]

  1. ^ Wyndham Wise, "La Vie rêvée". The Canadian Encyclopedia, June 3, 2009.
  2. ^ "Canada On Screen". Vancouver Sun, June 29, 2017.
  3. ^ Olivier Lamothe, "Vie rêvée, La (1972)". Panorama Cinéma, March 25, 2013.
  4. ^ Marshall 2001, p. 220.
  5. ^ Martin Knelman, "Wedding in White wins Etrog". The Globe and Mail, October 16, 1972.
  6. ^ Carole Corbeil, "The stars are coming out for Toronto's film festival". The Globe and Mail, September 6, 1984.