Directed by:
Patricia RozemaScreenplay:
Patricia RozemaCinematography:
Douglas KochComposer:
Mark KorvenPlots(1)
Structured around a video-recorded confession, this charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and has since taken its place as a beloved lesbian classic. Aspiring photographer Polly (comedian Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle’s paintings, but as Polly gets to know her lover Mary (Ann-Marie MacDonald) and becomes entangled in their lives, she realizes Gabrielle isn’t exactly who she appears to be. The gauche absent-minded temp with spiky orange hair and the polished, bourgeois curator with a gift for gab are like night and day, yet a strong connection builds between these two women through their shared love of art, and their genuine curiosity and appetite for romance. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Sheila McCarthy
Canada
Best movies:
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Being Julia (2004)
A Woman of Independent Means (1995) (series)
Patricia Rozema
Canada
Best movies:
Brenda Kamino
Best movies:
The Glass Castle (2017)
Zero Patience (1993)
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
Paule Baillargeon
Canada
Best movies:
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
The Age of Ignorance (2007)
August 32nd on Earth (1998)