The Wind from Wyoming

The Wind from Wyoming
FrenchLe Vent du Wyoming
Directed byAndré Forcier
Written byPatrice Arbour
André Forcier
Jacques Marcotte
Produced byNardo Castillo
Claude Léger
StarringSarah-Jeanne Salvy
France Castel
Céline Bonnier
Michel Côté
Marc Messier
CinematographyGeorges Dufaux
Edited byJacques Gagné
Music byChristian Gaubert
Production
companies
Eiffel Productions
Les Productions EGM
Transfilm
Release date
  • September 2, 1994 (1994-09-02) (MWFF)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Wind from Wyoming (French: Le Vent du Wyoming) is a Canadian black comedy film, directed by André Forcier and released in 1994.[1]

The film centres on a dysfunctional family whose efforts at finding and keeping love become tangled up with a stage hypnotist performing at the local hotel.[2] Daughter Léa (Sarah-Jeanne Salvy) is in unrequited love with Reo (Martin Randez), a boxer who has instead entered a relationship with her mother Lizette (France Castel), while her sister Manon (Céline Bonnier) has a crush on Chester Celine (François Cruzet), a writer she has never met, and her father Marcel (Michel Côté) remains hurt by Lizette's betrayal of him. They all enlist Albert the Great (Marc Messier) to hypnotize their respective love interests, but the effort backfires and forces them to deal with unintended consequences.[2]

  1. ^ "Le Vent du Wyoming blows in with emotional-knockout power". Montreal Gazette, August 28, 1994.
  2. ^ a b "'Reality doesn't interest me at all': Filmmaker Andre Forcier's work Le vent du Wyoming is up for the grand prize at Montreal's World Film Festival - now, he says, if only people will come to see it". The Globe and Mail, August 27, 1994.