Dream Life (French: La Vie rêvée) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Mireille Dansereau and released in 1972.[1] The first narrative fiction feature film from Quebec to be directed by a woman,[2] the film stars Liliane Lemaître-Auger and Véronique Le Flaguais as Isabelle and Virginie, colleagues at a film production company in Montreal, who dream of finding the perfect man but come to realize that reality doesn't live up to their fantasies.[3] It was the first privately produced feature film in Canada to be directed by a woman.[4]
| Dream Life | |
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| French | La Vie rêvée |
| Directed by | Mireille Dansereau |
| Written by | Mireille Dansereau Patrick Auzépy |
| Produced by | Guy Bergeron |
| Starring | Liliane Lemaître-Auger Véronique Le Flaguais |
| Cinematography | Louis de Ernsted François Gill Richard Rodrigue |
| Edited by | Danielle Gagné |
| Music by | Emmanuel Charpentier |
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Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
The film won two Canadian Film Awards at the 24th Canadian Film Awards in 1972, for Best Editing (Danielle Gagné) and the Wendy Michener Award.[5]
It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films from throughout the history of Canadian cinema.[6]
References
Works cited
- Marshall, Bill (2001). Quebec National Cinema. McGill–Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2103-8.
External links
- Dream Life at IMDb
