Luce Guilbeault

Contes des mille et un jours ou Jean Desprez (1986)

A Question of Loving (1986)

A drama of manners, spiced by light moments, describing the "love stories" of a mother and her daughter. The two women spend a summer together. Madeline, the mother, a professional, independent woman, begins a romantic relationship with an engineer after e ...

The Forties (1982)

A group of friends reunite after thirty years of separation. ...

Be Pretty and Shut Up! (1981)

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which is borrowed from a 1958 film with the same name by Marc Allegret, refers to the sense the actresses have o ...

A Scream from Silence (1979)

A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womanhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape. ...

Angela (1977)

A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends. ...

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. ...

Mustang (1975)

Invited to participate in a western festival, a singer tries to unravel the mysterious death of a friend. ...

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 ...

Les beaux dimanches (1974)

Par une belle nuit d'hiver (1974)

Two young adults discover love by a beautiful Montreal winter night. ...

O.K.... Laliberté (1973)

A down-and-out man who got separated, gets his second chance in a boarding house, thanks to a friend who is a con man, and falls in love with a roommate. However, when he gets a job, his ego gets over and might lose everything he got. ...

Le grand sabordage (1973)

Two youngsters, a boy and girl barely into their teens, set up housekeeping together after dropping out of school. They have very little money and end up living in a rooming house. They spend their time playing, coming up with slogans, and writing them on ...

Ordinary Tenderness (1973)

A lonely woman spends the winter isolated and reminiscing about the past as she waits for her husband to return from a prolonged absence. ...

Réjeanne Padovani (1973)

The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway. ...

The Time of the Hunt (1972)

A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip. ...

Dirty Money (1972)

A robbery at the secluded country home of a wealthy old man goes horribly awry. ...

IXE-13 (1972)

A first-rate French-Canadian spy must tangle with a female Chinese spy who is in love with him. ...

Françoise Durocher, waitress (1972)

Fictional character played by 24 different actresses, Françoise Durocher is altogether small time waitress, hostess and barmaid. Together, according to the author, they represent the archetypical Québec waitress that everyday waits on us with a smile, de ...

Des souris et des hommes (1971)

Percé on the Rocks (1964)

This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec's Gaspé peninsula. It is perhaps the most photographed natural phenomenon on Canada's East Coast. Shot in the 1960s, the film has a very psychedelic feel to it ...

Some American Feminists (1978)

A series of interviews, combined with newsreel footage, that placed the American feminist movement in historical perspective. Six of the movement's founding women, including Betty Friedan and Kate Millett, discuss the issues that most concern them. ...