F-0204

Title:

Mon amie Max

Category:

S

Produced:

1994

Country:

Canada / France

Released:

Film: Sep 1994 (France)

Director:

Michel Brault

Writer:

Guy Fournier; Jefferson Lewis

Actors:

Geneviève Bujold (Marie-Alexandrine Brabant); Marthe Keller (Catherine Mercier); Johanne McKay (Marie-Alexandrine - adolescente); Marie Guillard (Catherine - adolescente); Michel Rivard (Denis Lajeunesse); Rita Lafontaine (Madame Brabant); Véronique Le Flaguais (Mme Michaud); Jean-Louis Roux (Père Berube); Patrice Bissonnette (Michel Simard); Rosa Zacharie (Françoise Simard); Jean-René Ouellet (Jacques); François Dompierre (Chef d'orchestre concert Catherine); Ari Snyder (Leopold Schneider); Michael Sinelnikoff (Professeur du Conservatoire); Jeanne Quintal Beaulieu (Directrice du Conservatoire)

Description:

Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent? (jhailey)

Language:

French

TT:

106 min

J.S. Bach's Music:

Concerto for 2 harpsichords, strings & continuo No. 2 in C major, BWV 1061
Carmen Picard and Jacynthe Couture

Format:

Film: Color (Kodak), Dolby

Company:

Film: Les Productions Lazennec; Les Productions du Verseau; National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

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Contributor: Aryeh Oron (November 2007)