The Caretaker's Lodge

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The Caretaker's Lodge
French La Conciergerie
Directed by Michel Poulette
Written by Benoît Dutrizac
Michel Poulette
Produced by Christian Larouche
Luc Vandal
Starring Serge Dupire
Macha Grenon
Jacques Godin
Cinematography Yves Bélanger
Edited byÉric Drouin
Music byJean-Marie Benoît
Production
company
Release date
  • August 26, 1997 (1997-08-26)(FFM)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Caretaker's Lodge (French : La Conciergerie) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Michel Poulette and released in 1997. [1] The film stars Serge Dupire as Jacques Laniel, a police officer who quits the force to become a private detective so that he can investigate and solve the murder of his former police partner Thomas Colin (Jacques Godin). [2]

The cast also includes Macha Grenon, Monique Spaziani, Tania Kontoyanni, Jean-René Ouellet, Michel Forget, Raymond Cloutier, Paul Dion, Carl Béchard, Maka Kotto, Dorothée Berryman, Marie-Claude Lefebvre, Isabel Richer, David La Haye, Eric Cabana, Lenie Scoffié, Paul Buissonneau, Caroline Néron, JiCi Lauzon, Guy Provost, Andrée Champagne, Claude Léveillée and Bianca Gervais in supporting roles.

The screenplay was written by Poulette and journalist and crime novelist Benoît Dutrizac. [3]

The film premiered at the 1997 Montreal World Film Festival, [4] where it won the award for Best Canadian Film. [5]

Marcel Pothier, Guy Francoeur, Antoine Morin, Viateur Paiement and Myriam Poirier received a Genie Award nomination for Best Sound Editing at the 18th Genie Awards in 1998. [6]

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References

  1. Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN   1-894073-21-5. p. 47.
  2. Pat Donnelly, "Cop thriller inspires giggles, not chills". Montreal Gazette , August 27, 1997.
  3. Louise Carrière, "Un flic chez les monstres". Ciné-Bulles , Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter 1998). pp. 30-33.
  4. Ray Conlogue, "Two Canadian films compete in Montreal film festival: Michel Poulette's La Conciergerie and Olivier Asselin's The Seat of the Soul vie for Grand Prix with 19 others". The Globe and Mail , August 6, 1997.
  5. John Griffin, "Iranian movie takes top honours at film festival: Children of Heaven wins jury prize and public vote". Ottawa Citizen , September 3, 1997.
  6. Doug Saunders, "Egoyan film leads Genie race: The Sweet Hereafter picks up nominations for Canada's film awards". The Globe and Mail , November 5, 1997.