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A Montreal Girl (2010)

A Montreal Girl poster
Original title
La fille de Montréal
Directed by
Jeanne Crépeau
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 32m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A middle-aged lesbian filmmaker in Montreal faces eviction from her longtime apartment. She turns to her close friends for support as she deals with the changes in her neighborhood and her life.

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What happens

A Montreal Girl (French: La Fille de Montréal) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jeanne Crépeau and released in 2010. The film stars Amélie Grenier as Ariane, a lesbian filmmaker who has lived in the same apartment in Montreal's rapidly gentrifying Le Plateau-Mont-Royal district since her student days, but who is now confronted in her 40s with a renoviction notice giving her six months to vacate the apartment. The film also stars Réal Bossé, Marie-Hélène Montpetit and Jean Turcotte as Ariane's core circle of friends. Semi-autobiographical, the film started out as a documentary about Crépeau's own real-life eviction from her longtime apartment before evolving into a narrative fiction film, and was shot in her real apartment. The film premiered at Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma in 2010, before going into limited commercial release in early 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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