Justine's Film

Justine's Film (French: Le film de Justine) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Jeanne Crépeau and released in 1989.[1] The film stars Marie-Hélène Montpetit as Justine, a lesbian woman who is coping with the end of her relationship with a woman she loved, but who only saw Justine as a friend rather than a girlfriend.[2]

Justine's Film
FrenchLe film de Justine
Directed byJeanne Crépeau
Written byJeanne Crépeau
Produced byJeanne Crépeau
Narrated byMarie-Hélène Montpetit
CinematographySylvaine Dufaux
Jeanne Crépeau
Yves Bélanger
Edited byRichard Comeau
Music byMarc Pérusse
Production
company
Les films de l'autre
Distributed byCinéma Libre
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
46 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The cast also includes Paula de Vasconcelos, Danielle Trépanier, Stephanie Morgenstern, Denise Ménard, Roc Lafortune, Léa-Marie Cantin, Stephen Craig, Josée Chaboillez, Charlotte Laurier, Denis Trudel, Ariane Lee, Stéphane Lestage, Gérard Soler, Benoît Pilon, Pol Turgeon, Vratislav Hadrava, Jean Turcotte, Isabelle Guilbault, Carole Faucher. The film is narrated entirely in voice-over, with no dialogue directly spoken by the characters.

The film screened at the 1989 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film award jury,[3] and at the 1990 Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, where it won awards for Best Experimental Film, Best Director and Best Musical Score.[4]

References
  1. Marco de Blois, "Critiques de cinq courts métrages". 24 images Iss. 47 (January–February 1990). pp. 66–68.
  2. Luc Perreault, "Le chant désespéré de Jeanne Crépeau". La Presse, October 26, 1989.
  3. "Quirky film `most popular' at Toronto festival". Ottawa Citizen, September 18, 1989.
  4. "Awards for Montreal-made films". Montreal Gazette, June 4, 1990.


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