Missing Victor Pellerin

Missing Victor Pellerin
FrenchRechercher Victor Pellerin
Directed bySophie Deraspe
Written bySophie Deraspe
Denis Langlois
Produced byLuc Déry
Serge Noël
Douglas Bensadoun
StarringEudore Belzile
Élisabeth Legrand
Anne Lebeau
Éric Devlin
CinematographySophie Deraspe
Edited bySophie Deraspe
Music byJulien Roy
Production
companies
Les Films Siamois
Darling Films
Distributed byAtopia Films
Release date
  • October 18, 2016 (2016-10-18) (FNC)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Missing Victor Pellerin (French: Rechercher Victor Pellerin) is a Canadian mockumentary film directed by Sophie Deraspe and released in 2016.[1] The film centres on the mystery of Victor Pellerin, a visual artist from Montreal who burned all of his art and disappeared in 1990, on the occasion of a 2005 gallery show exhibiting artwork by other figures who had been influenced by him.[2]

The cast consists principally of real figures in Montreal's arts scene playing fictionalized versions of themselves, including Eudore Belzile, Élisabeth Legrand, Anne Lebeau, Éric Devlin, Olga Korper, Julien Poulin, Alain Lacoursière, Mathieu Beauséjour, Sheila Ribeiro, Sylvain Bouthillette, Maria-Luisa Fernandes, Plastik Patrick and Jean-Frédéric Messier.[1]

The film premiered at the 2006 Festival du nouveau cinéma, where it received a special mention from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma.[3]

  1. ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Rechercher Victor Pellerin – Film de Sophie Deraspe". Films du Québec, May 5, 2009.
  2. ^ John Griffin, "Painter Pellerin: holy fool or scam artist?". Montreal Gazette, November 24, 2006.
  3. ^ Odile Tremblay, "Un 35e FNC régénéré et éclaté". Le Devoir, October 4, 2006.