Montreal Stories

1991 Canadian film

Montreal Stories

French| Montréal vu par...
Directed by|

* Denys Arcand
* Michel Brault
* Atom Egoyan
* Jacques Leduc
* Léa Pool
* Patricia Rozema

Written by|

* Paule Baillargeon
* Denys Arcand
* Michel Brault
* Atom Egoyan
* Jacques Leduc
* Léa Pool
* Patricia Rozema

Produced by|

* Doris Girard
* Michel Houle
* Yves Rivard
* Denise Robert
* Peter Sussman

Cinematography| Francois Aubry
Éric Cayla
Paul Sarossy
Edited by| Susan Shipton
Dominique Fortin
Music by| Jean Corriveau
Michel F. Côté
Mychael Danna
Diane Labrosse
Yves Laferrière
Osvaldo Montes

Production
companies

* Atlantis Films
* Cinémaginaire
* National Film Board of Canada

Release date

* 1991 (1991)

Running time

| 125 minutes
Country| Canada

Montreal Stories (French: Montréal vu par...), also titled Montreal Sextet in some releases, is a Canadian drama film, released in 1991 as an homage to the city of Montreal, Quebec 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

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Actors appearing in the films include Denys Arcand, Philippe Ayoub, Paule Baillargeon, Michel Barrette, Claude Blanchard, Domini Blythe, Geneviève Brouillette, Maury Chaykin, Anne Dorval, Rémy Girard, Élise Guilbault, Yves Jacques, Arsinée Khanjian, Alexandrine Latendresse, Charlotte Laurier, Véronique Le Flaguais, Robert Lepage, Maria del Mar, Sheila McCarthy, Monique Mercure, Jean-Louis Millette, Guylaine St-Onge, Raoul Trujillo, Suzanne Champagne, John Gilbert and Guillermo Verdecchia.

## Segments

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* "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.

## See also

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* The Memories of Angels, a collage film about Montreal
* Cosmos, a 1996 film which assigned the same premise to six young emerging directors

## References

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1. ^ a b Montréal vu par ... Archived 2014-01-08 at the Wayback Machine at Toronto International Film Festival's Canadian Film Encyclopedia.

## External links

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* Montreal Stories at IMDb
* Montreal Stories at Rotten Tomatoes
* Images from the film at the National Film Board of Canada

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Films directed by Denys Arcand

* Alone or with Others (1962)
* Dirty Money (1972)
* Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
* Gina (1975)
* Cotton Mill, Treadmill (1976)
* Comfort and Indifference (1982)
* Empire, Inc. (1983)
* The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984)
* The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
* Jesus of Montreal (1989)
* 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)
* The Fall of the American Empire (2018)
* Testament (2023)

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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)
* Guest of Honour (2019)
* Seven Veils (2023)

TV films|

* In This Corner (1986)
* Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (1993)
* Sarabande (1997)
* Krapp's Last Tape (2000)

Short films|

* Montréal vu par... ("En passant", 1991)
* The Line (2000)
* To Each His Own Cinema ("Artaud Double Bill", 2007)

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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)
* This Might Be Good (2000)
* Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
* Into the Forest (2015)
* Mouthpiece (2018)

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Films directed by Léa Pool

* Strass Cafè (1980)
* A Woman in Transit (1984)
* Anne Trister (1986)
* Straight for the Heart (1988)
* Rispondetemi (1991)
* The Savage Woman (1991)
* Desire in Motion (1994)
* Set Me Free (1999)
* Lost and Delirious (2001)
* The Blue Butterfly (2004)
* Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (2008)
* The Last Escape (2010)
* Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011)
* The Passion of Augustine (2015)
* Worst Case, We Get Married (2017)
* Hotel Silence (2024)

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