COSMOS
“ Drôle, intelligent, tout à fait original”
“Et puis, il y a le très beau regard que pose Jennifer Alleyn sur la rencontre d’une jeune belle et d’un vieux beau.”
“Plein d’esprit et de style…inoubliable!”
Fiction / 35mm / 100 min./ 1996
A film by Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Brian, Marie-Julie Dallaire, André Turpin, Denis Villeneuve and Arto Paragamian.
* Art and Experimental Cinema Award, Directors Forthnight, Cannes Film Festival
* Canada’s Selection for the Oscars
Synopsis
Bringing together six young filmmakers, Cosmos offers as many urban stopovers through the day of a Montreal taxi driver. From this collective film, Jennifer Alleyn wrote and directed the segment Aurora and Twilight, featuring Sarah-Jeanne Salvy and Gabriel Gascon.
SCRIPT Jennifer Alleyn
IMAGE André turpin
SOUND Dominic Chartrand, Pierre Bertrand.
SOUND MIX Sylvain Bellemare
EDITING Richard Comeau
MUSIC Michel A. Smith
PRODUCER Max films
CAST Igor Ovadis, Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Garbiel Gascon, (Audrey Benoît, David LaHaye France Castel, Élise Guilbeault, Alexis Martin, Marie-France Lambert, Pascal Contamine, etc…)
“Le voyage en vaut la peine, ne serait-ce que pour le segment d’André Turpin ou celui de Jennifer Alleyn qui met en scène la rencontre fortuite d’une jeune fille en fleur et d’un vieil homme fané. ”
Film career
Produced by Roger Frappier from Max Films, Cosmos was launched at the 50th Cannes Film Festival (Directors' Fortnight) where it was awarded the C. A. E. C.I. price.
It was Canada's Academy Award nominee in 1997. Shown in more than 100 festivals around the world, released in theaters in France and Italy and broadcasted on television in Argentina and Sweden.