Victoire (2023 film)

Victoire
FrenchLa Cordonnière
Directed byFrançois Bouvier
Written bySylvain Guy
Based onLa Cordonnière by Pauline Gill
Produced byAndré Rouleau
Valérie d’Auteuil
StarringRose-Marie Perreault
Pierre-Yves Cardinal
CinematographyFrançois Dutil
Edited byMichel Arcand
Music byBenoît Charest
Production
company
Caramel Films
Distributed byLes Films Opale
Release date
  • March 17, 2023 (2023-03-17)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Victoire (French: La Cordonnière) is a Canadian drama film, directed by François Bouvier and released in 2023.[1] Adapted from Pauline Gill's series of historical novels about the life of Victoire Du Sault, a 19th-century shoemaker in Montreal who was one of Quebec's first women ever to launch her own business, the film stars Rose-Marie Perreault as Du Sault, and centres on her early romantic relationship with older businessman Georges-Noël Dufresne (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) before being married off to his son Thomas (Nicolas Fontaine).[2]

The cast also includes Élise Guilbault in a small role as Victoire in her older age, as well as Madeleine Péloquin, Jeff Boudreault, Anick Lemay, Henri Picard, Nicolas Fontaine, Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi, Antoine Pilon, Martin Larocque, Louis-Georges Girard, Samuel Bouchard, Janie Faucher-Roy, Gabriel Sabourin, Éric Cabana and Marcel Sabourin in supporting roles.

The film opened theatrically in March 2023,[2] before being added to video on demand platforms in May.[3]