Micheline Lanctôt
12 titles
Filmography
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The True Nature of Bernadette
(1972)Bored Montreal housewife Bernadette (Micheline Lanctôt) decides to trade her comfortable bourgeois life in the city for a simpler existence in the Quebec countryside. So Bernadette and her son move into a dilapidated farmhouse where they begin communing with nature and making their living off the land. When the newcomers' arrival coincides with positive changes in the community, Bernadette's neighbors bestow on her the dubious title of "miracle worker."
The Heavenly Bodies
(1973)Laughter
(2020)A friend and a boyfriend help a woman work through a traumatic incident where she was the only survivor.
The Long Winter
(1999)A partly fictionalized historical drama about the rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought to make Lower Canada (now Quebec) a republic independent of the British empire. The main protagonist is Patriote François-Xavier Bouchard. The latter comes back to Lower Canada in the autumn of 1838 after having escaped to the United States (as a number of Patriotes did indeed), after the first uprising, in that year. As soon as he returns, despite the exhortations of his family, he joins François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier for another attempt. Following a hasty trial, Bouchard, Chevalier de Lorimier and others are sentenced to death.

Frontiers
(2023)Diane Messier lives with her two sisters and her daughter Sarah on a farm in the Eastern Townships near the American border. In the wake of a tragic accident, Diane starts feeling as though she is under constant threat, going so far as to believe that her house is haunted. Concerned, her mother Angèle, returns from Florida to support her daughter and attempt to bring the family together.

Ravenous
(2017)As a zombie plague ravages their rural Quebec town, a scrappy band of survivors join forces to flee the infected hordes in this quiet thriller.

Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
(2005)A detective harboring a secret navigates a labyrinth of guilt, loyalty, and betrayal while investigating a whistleblower’s mysterious death.
A Scream from Silence
(1979)A therapist's client, a young auditioning actress, a guru's disciple, a secretary, a wife: five short rape stories before the start of the main story. Suzanne, a nurse, returns home at midnight after her work. She is attacked by a man who forces her into his truck, beats her, insults her, rapes her. The following medical examination and statements at the police station are felt as an extension of the rape. Library documents broaden the subject to all those women who, during the Vietnam War among others, serve as distractions to the warriors, to this barbaric practice still current in Africa, clitoridectomy, "the most absolute rape, that of the woman within the woman."
Pour l'amour de Dieu
(2011)The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
(1974)Duddy Kravitz (Dreyfuss) is an 18-year-old Jewish kid from Montreal whose mother is dead, and whose father drives a cab and does a little pimping on the side to pay the bills and send Duddy's older brother to medical school. Duddy has bigger dreams, and he does everything from producing films of bar mitzvahs to attempting to buy real estate to (unknowingly) smuggling heroin in order to strike it rich. Along the way, however, he alienates his girlfriend, drives his grandfather to despair, loses all his friends, and even paralyzes his best employee, while making himself more and more miserable.

You Are Not Alone
(2024)
The Nature of Love
(2023)A philosophy professor reevaluates her predictable life when she finds herself drawn to a contractor rehabbing her and her partner's summer cottage.