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| Gilles Carle, the
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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
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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.
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