Moody Beach | |
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Directed by | Richard Roy |
Written by | Richard Roy |
Produced by | Pierre Gendron |
Starring |
Michel Côté Claire Nebout Andrée Lachapelle |
Cinematography | Guy Dufaux |
Edited by | Michel Arcand |
Music by | Yves Laferrière |
Production company | Max Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Moody Beach is a Canadian drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 1990. [1] The film stars Michel Côté as Simon, a man in the throes of a midlife crisis who quits his job and undertakes a road trip to the United States after inheriting a beach house from his late mother, only to find Laurence ( Claire Nebout), a young woman from France, squatting on the property. [2]
The film premiered at the 1990 Montreal World Film Festival. [3] Its premiere attracted the longest ticket lineup of any film at the festival, which Noel Taylor of the Ottawa Citizen attributed to the success of Côté's prior film Cruising Bar, [3] but the film was only modestly successful in commercial release. [4]
The film was not favourably reviewed by critics. Taylor called it soporific and boring, dismissing it as a "pretentious melodrama", [5] while Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail lambasted it, writing that it was "full of silence and fury, signifying . . . you guessed it - nada, zilch, rien. Or, at least, nothing that doesn't seem like so much pseudo-intellectual posturing on the head of a metaphysical pin. Yep, we got a brand new genre here: pin-head existentialism." [2]
The film received three Genie Award nominations at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991, for Best Cinematography ( Guy Dufaux), Best Overall Sound (Michel Descombes, Luc Boudrias, Jo Caron, Richard Besse) and Best Sound Editing (Jérôme Décarie, Marcel Pothier, Antoine Morin, Diane Boucher). [6]
Moody Beach | |
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Directed by | Richard Roy |
Written by | Richard Roy |
Produced by | Pierre Gendron |
Starring |
Michel Côté Claire Nebout Andrée Lachapelle |
Cinematography | Guy Dufaux |
Edited by | Michel Arcand |
Music by | Yves Laferrière |
Production company | Max Films |
Release date |
|
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Moody Beach is a Canadian drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 1990. [1] The film stars Michel Côté as Simon, a man in the throes of a midlife crisis who quits his job and undertakes a road trip to the United States after inheriting a beach house from his late mother, only to find Laurence ( Claire Nebout), a young woman from France, squatting on the property. [2]
The film premiered at the 1990 Montreal World Film Festival. [3] Its premiere attracted the longest ticket lineup of any film at the festival, which Noel Taylor of the Ottawa Citizen attributed to the success of Côté's prior film Cruising Bar, [3] but the film was only modestly successful in commercial release. [4]
The film was not favourably reviewed by critics. Taylor called it soporific and boring, dismissing it as a "pretentious melodrama", [5] while Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail lambasted it, writing that it was "full of silence and fury, signifying . . . you guessed it - nada, zilch, rien. Or, at least, nothing that doesn't seem like so much pseudo-intellectual posturing on the head of a metaphysical pin. Yep, we got a brand new genre here: pin-head existentialism." [2]
The film received three Genie Award nominations at the 12th Genie Awards in 1991, for Best Cinematography ( Guy Dufaux), Best Overall Sound (Michel Descombes, Luc Boudrias, Jo Caron, Richard Besse) and Best Sound Editing (Jérôme Décarie, Marcel Pothier, Antoine Morin, Diane Boucher). [6]