LES FLEURS OUBLIÉES

André Forcier

Canada | V.O. French | 2019 | 102 min | DCP | color | Fiction

Albert Payette, former agronomist and beekeeper, pollinates the rooftops of Montreal with his nephew Jerry in order to save the bees. Faced with the ecological emergency, Brother Marie-Victorin leaves heaven to help him. Albert introduces him to the mead he sells to finance his departure to Mingan. Lili de la Rosbil, a journalist, and Mathilde Gauvreau, a lawyer, will try everything to rescue Mexican farm workers from a multinational which is poisoning the Earth. This naturalistic fable will unfold on the territory of Minganie where Albert produces his mead.

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Director	André Forcier
Music	Robert Fusil, Jo Millette
Cinematographer	Nathalie Moliavo-Visotzky
Screenplay	Jean Boileau, André Forcier, Linda Pinet, François Pinet-Forcier, Renaud Pinet-Forcier
Cast	Roy Dupuis, Yves Jacques, Christine Beaulieu, Juliette Gosselin, Emile Schneider
Production	Exogene Films, Les Films Du Paria
Distribution	Filmoption International

Biographie

André Forcier

Quebec screenwriter and director whose works have been acclaimed by international critics and have won numerous awards, André Forcier has directed L’eau chaude l’eau frette (1976), Une histoire inventée (1990), Le vent du Wyoming (1994), Je me souviens (2009), Coteau rouge (2011) et Embrasse-moi comme tu m’aimes (2015). He is the first Canadian filmmaker with a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française in 1987. In 2010, he received the Governor General of Canada Award, the highest honour in media arts in the country. Les fleurs oubliées is his 15th feature film.