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A documentary by Charles Binamé
Jutra Award Best Documentary 2005
Gilles Carle, the prolific director of such movies as
La vraie nature de Bernadette
and Maria Chapdelaine, has been
struggling against Parkinson’s disease with dignity
for about fifteen years.
Based on Carle’s last script completed in 2000,
entitled “Mona MC Gill et son vieux père
malade,” Charles Binamé’s documentary,
which took slightly over two years to film, gives us
a friendly, penetrating look of a brave, lucid creator
confronted with suffering and the perspective of death.
Although the subject is grave, we see a stong will to
live and to create. A movie shrouded in all the light
and love of Chloé Ste-Marie, the famous director’s
companion of 25 years.
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Charles Binamé has started his career in
the seventies. The documentaries he directed at
the time, sketches of Pierre Vallières, Denis
Vanier and others, already bore his stamp. In 1993,
he directed the series Blanche,
a sequel to Les filles de Caleb,
and it won him both the Gémeaux award for
best directing and the FIPA d'or in Cannes. |
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Then
came out one after the other the movies
C'était le 12 du 12 et Chili avait les blues
(1994) and Eldorado (1995). In
1996, he directed the series Marguerite
Volant, followed by the movies Le
coeur au poing (1997) and La beauté
de Pandore (2000). In 2001, he was back
to documentary filmmaking with Gauvreau ou l'obligation
de la liberté. Un homme et son péché,
his recent movie, beat the Canadian box-office record,
with close to $10 million in revenue, which owed
him the Billet d'or at the Jutra awards evening
and the Bobine d'Or at the Genie Awards. In 2004,
he made his first works in English: the miniseries
H20 (CBC) and the "movie of
the week" Hunt for Fustice
(CTV) and shot a documentary on the moviemaker Gilles
Carle. In 2005, he shot the movie Maurice
Richard. Charles Binamé's films
have been presented in prestigious international
festivals and won many prizes.
photo de Charles Binamé: Pierre Dury
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