La réception (The Reception)

A film by Robert Morin and Lorraine Dufour

Synopsis

Drama, video, colour, 77 mins., 1989, Québec, Canada, OFV with English subtitles

The Reception takes place in an isolated mansion on an island, with ten guests but a mysteriously absent host. A storm traps everyone inside, and the atmosphere turns dark when it is revealed, by way of a video deliberately left for them by the host, that each of the guests has a criminal past. A death ensues, and then another . . . The mansion quickly turns into a jail, with the ten ex-convicts reenacting some of the power dynamics that exist in the prison environment. Inspired by Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians.

Credits

Featuring : Madelaine Ainey, Réal Chartrand, Carole Dalcourt, Diane Gobeil, Michel Jacques, Nathalie Joncas, Robert Morin, Anne Rousseau, Mario Turcot, Antoine Zarzour

Camera : Robert Morin
Editor : Lorraine Dufour
Sound : Marcel Chouinard, Richard Angers

Based on : Agatha Christie, d'après le roman Les 10 petits nègres
Written and directed by : Robert Morin

Producer : Lorraine Dufour
Production : Coop Vidéo de Montréal
Distributor : Vidéographe

Mentions

Festivals and Events


2007 - Exposition Acquérir pour grandir au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Canada)
2006 - Festival international du documentaire de Marseille - Rétrospective (France)
1996 - Festival de Blois (France)
1991-92 - Galerie Nationale du Canada - Rétrospective (Canada)
1991 - Centro de Arte Reina (Sofia, Bulgarie)
1991 - Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)
1990 - Galerie Nationale du Canada - Nouvelles acquisitions (Canada)
1990 - Galerie A Space - Rétrospective (Toronto, Canada)
1990 - Cinémathèque québécoise (Montréal, Canada)
1990 - Copenhagen International Film Festival (Danemark)
1990 - Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (Montréal, Canada)
1990 - Manifestation internationale de vidéo et de télévision de Montbéliard (France)
1990 - Galerie Pablo Neruda (Paris, France)
1990 - Musée du Québec (Canada)
1990 - Galerie Obscure (Québec, Canada)
1990 - Carré blanc sur fond blanc (Bruxelles, Belgique)
1989 - Worldwide Video Festival, Kijkhuis (La Haye, Pays-Bas)
Acquisition Banque d'oeuvres d'art du Conseil des Arts du Canada

Video

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