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Confessional (The)
- Director: Robert Lepage
- Writer: Robert Lepage
- Producer: Philippe Carcassonne; Daniel Louis
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First feature from the celebrated theatre director - Lepage.
With varying time-frames - he demonstrates his intelligence.
Don't expect to be spoon-fed, he does not underestimate his audience - he tries them and he tests them.
He has transferred this from the theatre to the screen - effortlessly and seamlessly.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The year is 1952, in Quebec City. Rachel, 16, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young priest, under the confidentiality of the confessional. In the present year of 1989, Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec to attend his father's funeral. He meets up with his adopted brother, Marc, who has begun questioning his identity and has embarked on a quest for his roots that would lead them to the Quebec of the 1950s. Past and present converge in a complex web of intrinque where the answer to the mystery lies.
Cast & Characters
Lothaire Bluteau as Pierre Lamontagne;
Patrick Goyette as Marc Lamontagne;
Jean-Louis Millette as Raymond Massicotte;
Kristin Scott Thomas as Assistant to Hitchcock;
Ron Burrage as Alfred Hitchcock;
Richard Fréchette as André Lamontagne;
François Papineau as Paul-Émile Lamontagne;
Marie Gignac as Françoise Lamontagne;
Normand Daneau as The Young Priest Massicotte;
Anne-Marie Cadieux as Manon;
Suzanne Clément as Rachel;
Lynda Lepage-Beaulieu as Jeanne d'Arc;
Pascal Rollin as The Parish Priest Laliberte;
Billy Merasty as Moose;
Paul Hébert as The Parish Priest