Jean-Pierre Cartier

Talk About Love

A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.

Orders

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Those Damned Savages

A meditation on society's attitudes and beliefs, as explored through a New France fur trapper's relationship with a Native woman that spans centuries.

The Plouffe Family

The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.

Q-Bec My Love

In this satire of sexuality in the entertainment industry and voyeurism, a woman maintains 3 romantic relationships simultaneously: with her husband, with her boss, and with her lover.

Poivre et sel

Panique

Industrial pollution causes water poisoning and generalized sickness in a nearby city and is the start of a major news scandal.

Lucien Brouillard

Solitary anarchist, Lucien Brouillard ceaselessly fights for his rights and those of his societal peers. His subversive whistleblower activities will bring him endless troubles, and he will begin a real descent into Hell after his former childhood friend, and now judge, Jacque Martineau.

Red the Half Breed

The illegitimate son of an Indian woman and a French Canadian man leaves home and is attacked when he tries to return.

The Apprentice

In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with a thin resume and no college units. He has a fiancée, Michelle, but his head is turned by a free-spirited model, from the U.S., who saw him being fired and comes to his flat to apologize. She's Elizabeth, a combination of feckless innocence and sexual freedom. Jean-Pierre borrows money from his outlaw friend, Dock, and buys clothes to impress Elizabeth. Soon he's sleeping with her, and he pulls a theft with Dock to get money to take her to Acapulco. Michelle tries to bring him back to her orbit. Is there a way out for Jean-Pierre?