Montreal Stories

Montreal Stories Montréal vu par...
Directed by	Denys Arcand Michel Brault Atom Egoyan Jacques Leduc Léa Pool Patricia Rozema
Produced by	Doris Girard Michel Houle Yves Rivard Denise Robert Peter Sussman
Written by	Paule Baillargeon Denys Arcand Michel Brault Atom Egoyan Jacques Leduc Léa Pool Patricia Rozema
Production company	Atlantis Films Cinémaginaire National Film Board of Canada
Release dates	1991
Running time	125 minutes
Country	Canada

Montreal Stories (French: Montréal vu par...), also titled as Montreal Sextet in some releases, is a Canadian drama film, released in 1991 as an homage to the city of Montreal on the occasion of its 350th anniversary.^[1] Written and directed by Denys Arcand, Michel Brault, Atom Egoyan, Jacques Leduc, Léa Pool and Patricia Rozema, the film is an anthology of six short films, one by each of the credited directors.^[1]

Cast

"Desperanto" (Rozema) — A young housewife from Toronto (Sheila McCarthy) explores Montreal's nightlife.
"La Toile du temps" (Leduc) — The history of a painting of former Montreal mayor Jacques Viger.
"La Dernière partie" (Brault) — Madeleine (Hélène Loiselle) tries to tell Roger (Jean Mathieu) she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage.
"En passant" (Egoyan) — A visitor to a conference arrives at the airport.
"Rispondetemi" (Pool) — En route to the hospital in an ambulance after a car accident, Sarah (Anne Dorval) recalls her life.
"Vue d'ailleurs" (Arcand) — At a diplomatic reception, an older woman (Domini Blythe) reminisces about a love affair in Montreal in 1967.

Films directed by Denys Arcand

A l'est d'Eaton (short, co-directed with Stéphane Venne, 1959)
Seul ou avec d'autres (co-directed with Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, 1962)
Cotton Mill, Treadmill (1970)
Dirty Money (1972)
Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
Gina (1975)
Comfort and Indifference (1982)
Empire, Inc. (TV mini-series episodes 2,5,6, 1983)
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984)
The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
Les lettres de la religieuse portugaise (TV, 1991)
Vue d'ailleurs (1992)
Love and Human Remains (1993)
Poverty and Other Delights (1996)
Stardom (2000)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Days of Darkness (2007)
An Eye for Beauty (2014)

Films directed by Atom Egoyan

Feature films	Next of Kin (1984) Family Viewing (1987) Speaking Parts (1989) The Adjuster (1991) Calendar (1993) Exotica (1994) The Sweet Hereafter (1997) Felicia's Journey (1999) Ararat (2002) Where the Truth Lies (2005) Adoration (2008) Chloe (2009) Devil's Knot (2013) The Captive (2014) Remember (2015)

TV films	Sarabande (1997) Krapp's Last Tape (2000)

Short films	Montréal vu par... ("En passant", 1991) To Each His Own Cinema ("Artaud Double Bill", 2007)

Films directed by Patricia Rozema

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) White Room (1990) Desperanto (1991) When Night Is Falling (1995) Mansfield Park (1999) Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) Into the Forest (2015)

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