Dream Life (1972)

Original title

La vie rêvée

Directed by

Mireille Dansereau

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young women who work together at a film company in Montreal dream of finding an ideal man. They discover that real life cannot match their fantasies.

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What happens

Dream Life (French: La Vie rêvée) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Mireille Dansereau and released in 1972. The first narrative fiction feature film from Quebec to be directed by a woman, the film stars Liliane Lemaître-Auger and Véronique Le Flaguais as Isabelle and Virginie, colleagues at a film production company in Montreal, who dream of finding the perfect man but come to realize that reality doesn't live up to their fantasies. It was the first privately produced feature film in Canada to be directed by a woman. The film won two Canadian Film Awards at the 24th Canadian Film Awards in 1972, for Best Editing (Danielle Gagné) and the Wendy Michener Award. It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films from throughout the history of Canadian cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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