A Montreal Girl

A Montreal Girl (French: La Fille de Montréal) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jeanne Crépeau and released in 2010.[1] The film stars Amélie Grenier as Ariane, a lesbian filmmaker who has lived in the same apartment in Montreal's rapidly gentrifying Le Plateau-Mont-Royal district since her student days, but who is now confronted in her 40s with a renoviction notice giving her six months to vacate the apartment.[2]

A Montreal Girl
La Fille de Montréal
Directed byJeanne Crépeau
Produced byJeanne Crépeau
Written byJeanne Crépeau
StarringAmélie Grenier
Réal Bossé
Marie-Hélène Montpetit
Jean Turcotte
CinematographySylvaine Dufaux
Mark Morgenstern
Edited byLouise Dugal
Production
company
Boxfilms
Release date
  • October 14, 2010 (2010-10-14) (FNC)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The film also stars Réal Bossé, Marie-Hélène Montpetit and Jean Turcotte as Ariane's core circle of friends.

Semi-autobiographical, the film started out as a documentary about Crépeau's own real-life eviction from her longtime apartment before evolving into a narrative fiction film, and was shot in her real apartment.[3]

The film premiered at Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma in 2010,[2] before going into limited commercial release in early 2011.[4]

See also
  • List of LGBT films directed by women

References
  1. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Fille de Montréal, La – Film de Jeanne Crépeau". Films du Québec, January 17, 2011.
  2. Robert Daudelin, "La fille de Montréal de Jeanne Crépeau". 24 images, Issue 149 (October–November 2010), p. 46.
  3. Craig Takeuchi, "Vancouver Queer Film Festival: Montreal director Jeanne Crépeau's tale of eviction resonates with Vancouverites". The Georgia Straight, August 23, 2012.
  4. "Tapis rouge pour La fille de Montréal". Le Devoir, January 25, 2011.


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