Victoire (2023)

Original title

La cordonnière

Directed by

François Bouvier

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in 19th-century Montreal starts a shoemaking business. She has a romance with an older businessman but is later married off to his son.

historicalromanticseriousslow-pacedintimatedeterminedperiod-setgrounded

What happens

Victoire (French: La Cordonnière) is a Canadian drama film, directed by François Bouvier and released in 2023. Adapted from Pauline Gill's series of historical novels about the life of Victoire Du Sault, a 19th-century shoemaker in Montreal who was one of Quebec's first women ever to launch her own business, the film stars Rose-Marie Perreault as Du Sault, and centres on her early romantic relationship with older businessman Georges-Noël Dufresne (Pierre-Yves Cardinal) before being married off to his son Thomas (Nicolas Fontaine). The cast also includes Élise Guilbault in a small role as Victoire in her older age, as well as Madeleine Péloquin, Jeff Boudreault, Anick Lemay, Henri Picard, Nicolas Fontaine, Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi, Antoine Pilon, Martin Larocque, Louis-Georges Girard, Samuel Bouchard, Janie Faucher-Roy, Gabriel Sabourin, Éric Cabana and Marcel Sabourin in supporting roles. The film opened theatrically in March 2023, before being added to video on demand platforms in May. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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