Louise Archambault | |
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Born | Montreal |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Director |
Years active | 1990-present |
Louise Archambault is a Canadian film and television director and screenwriter. [1] She is best known for her films Familia , which won the Claude Jutra Award in 2005, [2] and Gabrielle , which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture in 2014.
Archambault has directed numerous short films, including Atomic Saké , Lock, Petite Mort and Kluane . Her film Gabrielle was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, [3] and won two Canadian Screen Awards at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Picture and Best Actress for star Gabrielle Marion-Rivard. [4]
Her third feature film And the Birds Rained Down , an adaptation of Jocelyne Saucier's novel Il pleuvait des oiseaux, was released in 2019. [5] Her fourth film, Thanks for Everything (Merci pour tout), followed later the same year. [6] and One Summer (Le temps d'un été) was released in 2023. [7] In 2023 she also released Irena's Vow , her first English-language film. [8] The feature tells a story of a former nurse who shelters a dozen Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland. [9]
Archambault is a graduate of Concordia University in Montreal (BFA 93, MFA 00). [10]
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Gabrielle is a 2013 Canadian drama film directed by Louise Archambault and starring Gabrielle Marion-Rivard as Gabrielle, a young woman with Williams syndrome who participates in a choir of developmentally disabled adults, and begins a romantic relationship with her choirmate Martin. It features a cast from a real choir for people with disabilities, with Marion-Rivard being an actress who actually has Williams syndrome.
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Thanks for Everything is a 2019 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Louise Archambault. Her second film to be released in 2019 following And the Birds Rained Down , the film stars Julie Perreault and Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Christine and Marianne Cyr, two estranged sisters who reunite after the death of their father, and embark on a road trip to the Magdalen Islands to scatter his ashes.
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One Summer is a 2023 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Louise Archambault.
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