Kalamazoo (1988)

Directed by

André Forcier

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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.

whimsicaldreamlikegentlequirkyslow-pacedcontemplativeromanticfanciful

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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