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Québec-Montréal (2002) is a French movie. Ricardo Trogi has directed this movie. Patrice Robitaille,Jean-Phillipe Pearson,Stéphane Breton,François Létourneau are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2002. Québec-Montréal (2002) is considered one of the best Comedy,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Québec-Montréal: 250 km of asphalt, nine thirty-something travelers, four cars, one destination. The journey becomes an opportunity to share points of view about life and discuss troubling questions about existence. Highway 20 forms the backdrops for the sometimes hilarious, sometimes complicated situations between three south-bound friends who discuss ideal love, the quest of romance between two ambiguous office colleagues, the appearance of passion from a pictures perfect couple versus the daily-grind suffered by another young couple and their pending break up. The two hours in transit along the winding thoroughfare of love set a collision course of grating simultaneous reality-checks and deep reflections about where life has taken you and the roads that it will take you on in the future.
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Québec-Montréal (2002) Reviews
So real it's scary
I'm not that big a fan of the local movies around here, but I was told to see this one, and so I did, and I sure as hell don't regret it. The discussions are incredibly real, not so much a scenario and actors as plain people just talking about relationships. What's so impressive and scary is the fact that you recognize yourself in each one of the character and that in itself will make you think for a while about who you really are, who you're becoming, depending on your age. A very funny film, trust me.
Entertaining road-movie
This low-budget road-movie tackles men-women relationships with humor, drama and a lot of dialogue, which the young, mostly unknown actors deliver marvelously. Interestingly enough, this story, which mostly takes place inside cars, is very entertaining, with many different views on it's subject (through all the main characters) and a sometimes thoughtful dramatic foundation which brings every thread of the story together wonderfully at the end, shaping the fragile balance between companionship and division with a song by Sinéad O'Connor: 'This Is The Last Day of Our Acquaintance'. Funny, original and more clever than it might first appear to be.
Great Script
When I saw the poster of this film I thought: another stupid film. But I was completely wrong. Québec-Montréal has a brilliant script and a excellent editing. The story takes us from Quebec city to Montreal in 4 different cars. Not much action but great dialogues. Young people between 25 and 30 years old talk about love, sex and respect. They sure have a hard time understanding the 3 subjects. All the actors are terrific. Don't miss that film.
Realistic and True. A quality québécois movie.
I have never been the kind to run out and watch French-Canadian movies. However many people talked to me about this one and so I forced myself to rent it. The result: I was very genuinely surprised. This movie is good because of the same reason Seinfeld was a top comedy for years: it's a about nothing and yet it's about everything. It's about our lives; it's about just being human beings. Everybody will recognize himself/herself in some or all the characters. Moreover, this movie is natural, with excellent acting, even though most are inexperienced actors (if you judge from each actor's filmography). Congratulations to all involved!!
Frank and revelatory conversations about sex and relationships
Québec-Montréal is a Genie Award-nominated conversational dramedy that follows three different groups of people as they drive from Québec City to Montréal. Along the way, they have frank and revelatory conversations about sex and relationships which converge to reveal the conflicts and issues within the relationships between those in each car. And, of course, these three seemingly unconnected groups of travelers end up connecting with each other one way or another by the time the movie is over. If you're a fan of talky comedies full of two-shots, as I am, then you'll like this flick. If that sounds incredibly boring to you, even if it were in English, then don't bother. But the sub-titles thing didn't really get in the way at all, since most of the shots are fairly static, your eyes aren't too distracted to catch the dialogue. The dialogue itself is pretty clever, both from a comedic stand-point and an observational one. My personal favourite was with the three guys driving down to Montréal to catch a flight to the vacation in Cuba, and the one dude busts on his friend in the backseat, stating that the backseat dude is so in touch with his feminine side that women date him so they can experiment with lesbianism without changing their night-time eating habits. BURN. I think I might know a dude like that. Besides the dialogue, and the qualified performances of those delivering the dialogue, another plus for this flick is that because its French, it's chock-full of hot French chicks. I've been to Québec, and I can safely say that they seem to have an inordinate amount of hot chicks there, so it's good to see them represented here (unlike the Calgary movies I've seen, where the chicks didn't quite match up). I've actually ridden the reverse route of this movie (Montréal to Québec City), so I was hoping something might look familiar, but, no, since I was probably sleeping at the time. Unfortunately, not everything about this flick is great. There's one particular device used throughout the movie, where a Barbie and Ken lookalike couple keep driving by in their red corvette, that is silly and pointless. I've seen useless gimmicks like this in other independent Canadian films, and I never like them. They take you out of what is otherwise a very solid, grounded film. The movie looks pretty good for its less than 2 million dollar (Canadian) budget, but there are times when you can see spots and specks on the camera lens. Ah well, thus is the nature of indie film-making. Overall, I enjoyed it. I highly recommend it to others who like conversational comedies/dramas about relationships that slant toward melancholy. I'm not sure if it's available at all in the States, but the Canadian readers here should definitely consider checking it out.