No (film)

No is a Film of Robert Lepage produces in 1998.

Synopsis

No is a homage to the Théâtre Japanese but also refers at the conclusion of the two referendums to the Quebec. In October 1970, Quebec was world cup while to Osaka the World Fair offered to the world a portrait of what it became. The law day before to the measures of war, while his/her friend poses bombs with Montreal, Sophie plays a boulevard of Feydeau to the house of Quebec with Osaka. Sometimes in Japan, sometimes in Quebec, two historic moments the feverish climates, are made echoes. The fate of its country is played antipodes while Sophie plays theater. She learns that she is pregnant and the fate of his/her child depends on the father related to the terrorists of October 1970.

Data sheet

Realization: Robert Lepage
Production: Bruno Jobin
Scenario: Robert Lepage and Andre Morency
Cinematography: Pierre Mignot
Assembly: Paddle Foglia
Music: Michel F. Side and Bernard Falaise

Distribution

Anne-Marie Cadieux: Sophie Maltese
Marie Gignac: Patricia Hébert
Richard Fréchette: Walter
Alexis Martin: Michel
Eric Bernier: François-Xavier
Marie Arm-band: Hanako
Patrice Godin: Rene
Jean Charest: Claude
Jules Philip: Police officer #1
Tony Told: Police officer #2 (Tony Told itself)
Norman Bissonnette: Buchanen
Ghislaine Vincent: Mrs Petypon
Jean Leloup: Deliveryman
Walter T. Cassidy: Actor No
Ron Korb: Musician of flute No
Darren Hitoshi Miyasaki: Musician No
Gary Kiyoshi Nagata: Musician No
Jim Asano Akira: Assistant No
Milton Tanaka: Assistant No
Hitomi Asahata: Assistant No
Yosh Tagushi: Doctor
Michel Lee: Etienne
Robert Bellefeuille: Priest Feydeau
Lynda Lepage-Beaulieu: Mrs Feydeau
Noriko Hisatomi: Hostess in Expo of Osaka
Kathia Bassanoff: Woman
Julie Shimotakahra: Waitress of the restaurant
Nathalie Of Anjou: Caretaker
Denis Gaudreault: Visitor of the apartment
Denis Lefebvre: Visitor of the apartment
Abdul Aziz Rasuli: Azis
Yoshihiro Shimazu : Waiter of Karaoké
France Larochelle: Hostess of Quebec
Anne Larochelle: Hostess of Quebec
Robert Norman: Police officer
Pierre Auger: Voice
Sophie To mow: Voice
Manual Foglia: Voice
Pierre Drolet: Voice
Jean Chrétien: Itself (visual document of files)
Knowlton Nash: Itself (visual document of files)
Pierre Trudeau: Itself (visual document of files)

Rewards

1998 : International festival of film of Toronto, Price of the Best Canadian film realizer with Robert Lepage
1998: With Sudbury Cinéfest, Price of Best Canadian film with Robert Lepage

Nominations

1998 Grand Prix of Americas to the Festival of films of the world of Montreal to Robert Lepage
1999 Price Genius for the best drawing of costumes with Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt
1999 Price Genius for best the actress in a main role with Anne-Marie Cadieux
1999 Price Genius for the best scenario with Andre Morency and Robert Lepage
1999 Price Jutra for the best artistic director with Monique Dion, C. Jacques and Jean Bourdais
1999 Price Jutra for best photography with Pierre Mignot
1999 Price Jutra for the best realization with Robert Lepage
1999 Price Jutra for the best assembly image with Paddle Foglia
1999 Price Jutra for best film with Bruno Jobin
1999 Price Jutra for the best scenario with Andre Morency and Robert Lepage

Quotation

“ No was the occasion to brush a fresco of time with a guy which wants to change the world into posing bombs and a girl which seeks with réapproprier his freedom. One only starts to be detached enough from this period to be able to speak about it with humor. Because it was one idealistic time but also of an incredible awkwardness” (Robert Lepage, in of Quebec '').

External bond

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