Jean Mathieu

Montreal Stories (1991)

Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after for ...

Unfaithful Mornings (1989)

Jean-Pierre, a young photograph, takes a photo of the same street corner every morning for an entire year. This is to help a friend with the writing of a novel. But Jean-Pierre is not really respecting the rules of the game... ...

A Paper Wedding (1989)

A woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee. ...

Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte (1988)

Jacques et novembre (1984)

A dying man films his last month. ...

Les années de rêves (1984)

Continuing a saga that began with his previous, 1978 film, Vautours director Jean-Claude Labrecque returns with the French Canadian, Louis Pelletier and puts him in the context of the growing separatist movement in the late 1960s in Quebec. At that time, s ...

Sonatine (1984)

Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide. ...

Les grands enfants (1980)

Les Grands Enfants does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change : people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships. The fi ...

The Machine Age (1978)

A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage. ...

J.A. Martin Photographer (1977)

At the turn of the century, Rose-Aimée, the hard working wife of photographer J.A. Martin, decides to leave her children with an aunt to go with him on his annual tour of the Québec countryside. She hopes the intimacy will rekindle their marriage. ...

The Late Blossom (1977)

30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings. One day, tired of being teased by her office mates, she decides to consult a marriage agency to find her soul mate. ...

La fleur aux dents (1976)

Before the Time Comes (1975)

Hélène is a woman who already has, in her view, quite enough children. For some time she has secretly been taking birth control pills, but now she is too old to use them safely. When her husband Gabriel discovers the pills, he is distressed, since he wan ...

Kamouraska (1973)

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her pas ...