Spring 2009 Quebec Cinema Festival - "Maman est chez le coiffeur" (2008) March 25, 2009

The Center for Canadian Studies presents:
2009 Québec Cinema Festival

We are pleased to offer this film in association with the Duke Film/Video/Digital Program's Spring 2009 Screen/Society film series. With special thanks to Hank Okazaki for his continued support on our behalf!

Maman est chez le coiffeur (2008) directed by Léa Pool, written by Isabelle Hébert.

A 1960s-era teenager discovers that the adult world is neither what she hoped nor what she expected it would be after sparking her mother's tempestuous departure and subsequently being forced to step up and take care of her father and brothers. Elise's father is a respected doctor, and her mother an unsatisfied career woman and part-time journalist. It's been some time since Elise and her mother shared a kind word, so when the frustrated girl is disciplined, she resorts to meddling as a means of lashing out. That meddling proves the breaking point in the relationship between daughter and mother, prompting the mother's hasty and stormy departure from the family. The result of her absence is no less than devastating to the family, and life-altering for Elise, who must now sacrifice her youth in her struggle to keep the family together in their darkest hour.
Shown at Film Festivals in Toronto, Vancouver, San Sebastian, Denver, etc.

Official Website: http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php