In the film Souvenir, Isabelle Huppert plays a singer who lost a contest to ABBA in her younger days. Souvenir is being shown at the Cinemania film festival in Montreal.
Jonathan Romney of the Guardian/Observer has said “No festival should be without a superb Huppert performance. . .”
During the last weekend of this year’s film festival, Cinemania will show three Isabelle Huppert films– L’Avenir (Things To Come), Souvenir, and Elle, the same three that were shown in Toronto in September. (Added bonus – Cinemania tickets are much cheaper than those at TIFF!)
All three films have English subtitles. They will be shown at the beautifully restored Imperial cinema on Bleury St.
I watch mainstream films and more obscure ones as well. Montreal has lots of film festivals and I've been going to most of them for many years now. Through these festivals I feel like I've seen the world without having to pack a suitcase, and I've met fascinating people among the stars, directors, and other film fans who attend. From 2008 until November 2014 I wrote more than 1,220 posts for the Cine Files film review blog on the web site of Montreal's only daily English-language newspaper, The Gazette. Those posts are difficult to find now, because of major changes to the Gazette's web site. I will gradually add links to some of those posts on this blog.
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