Kalamazoo (1988)
- Directed by
- André Forcier
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Rating
- 4.0 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A retired botanist crashes his car and meets a painter who introduces him to a novel. He becomes infatuated with a mermaid who looks like the novel's author.
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What happens
Kalamazoo is a Canadian fantasy drama film, directed by André Forcier and released in 1988. The film stars Rémy Girard as Félix Cotnoir, a retired botanist who meets painter Pasquale Globensky (Tony Nardi) after crashing his car into a telephone booth; introduced by Globensky to the novel Kalamazoo by writer Hélène Montana (Marie Tifo), he soon falls in love with a mermaid who is Hélène's double in appearance. The film won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma in 1989. Tifo won the 1988 Prix Guy-L'Écuyer for Kalamazoo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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