Juniper Tree (film)

Juniper Tree
Le Piège d'Issoudun
Directed byMicheline Lanctôt
Written byMicheline Lanctôt
Based onThe Juniper Tree by The Brothers Grimm
Produced byAndré Gagnon
StarringSylvie Drapeau
Frédérick De Grandpré
CinematographyNicolas Bolduc
Edited byMicheline Lanctôt
Music byFrançois Lanctôt
Production
company
Stopfilm
Distributed byFilm Tonic International
Release date
  • November 21, 2003 (2003-11-21)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Juniper Tree (French: Le Piège d'Issoudun) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Micheline Lanctôt and released in 2003.[1] Based in part on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale The Juniper Tree,[2] the film stars Sylvie Drapeau as Esther, a depressed woman interacting with police officer Laurier (Frédérick De Grandpré) after failing in an attempt to kill herself and her children.[1]

Drapeau received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Actress at the 6th Jutra Awards.[3]

  1. ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Piège d’Issoudun, Le – Film de Micheline Lanctôt". Films du Québec, March 20, 2009.
  2. ^ Greenhill, Pauline (2014) "'Le piège d’Issoudun': Motherhood in Crisis". Narrative Culture, Vol. 1, Iss. 1 (2014).
  3. ^ John Griffin, "Grande seduction tops Jutra nods". Montreal Gazette, January 22, 2004.