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Louise Portal

Louise Portal

Quebec actress, singer and writer
May 12, 1950 (73 years old)

Confessions Of a Hitman

V.O.: Confessions
Can. 2021. Biography by Luc Picard with Luc Picard, Sandrine Bisson, David La Haye. The tumultuous life of Gérald Gallant, one of Quebec’s most prolific hitmen.
Runtime: 109 min.
Can. 2021. Docufiction by Denis Boivin with Karen Elkin, Perrine Gruson, Moïra Ashini. The closing of the Ursuline Monastery of Quebec City is an opportunity to look back at the history of this school for girls, founded by Marie de l’Incarnation in 1639.
Runtime: 126 min.

The Guide to the Perfect Family

V.O.: Le Guide de la famille parfaite
Can. 2020. Dramatic comedy by Ricardo Trogi with Louis Morissette, Émilie Bierre, Catherine Chabot. An insurance representative, out of touch with the new social trends, realizes that his family is going through an existential crisis.
Runtime: 101 min.

And the Birds Rained Down

V.O.: Il pleuvait des oiseaux
Can. 2019. Drama by Louise Archambault with Andrée Lachapelle, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy Girard. An 80-year-old woman who has escaped from an asylum and a young photographer burst into the lives of two old men living as hermits on the shores of a remote lake.
Runtime: 127 min.

Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin

V.O.: Les Salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau
Can. 2018. Mores drama by Renée Beaulieu with Brigitte Poupart, Vincent Leclerc, Nathalie Cavezzali. A university professor and happily married mother participates in a research project on the physiological reaction of the cells of the human body during sex.
Runtime: 97 min.
Can. 2018. Sentimental drama by David Findlay with Louise Portal, Ahmed Muslimani, Kati Outinen. Reclused in a cottage by a lake, a 60-year-old painter receives an impromptu visit from a young Toronto actor of Lebanese origin.
Runtime: 77 min.

Adrien

V.O.: Le Garagiste
Can. 2015. Drama by Renée Beaulieu with Normand D'Amour, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Nathalie Cavezzali. Weakened by his dialysis sessions, a proud and silent garage owner from Trois-Pistoles decides to follow his wife
Runtime: 87 min.

De douces paroles

V.O.: Hamilim Hatovot
Isr. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Shemi Zarhin with Rotem Zismann-Cohen, Assaf Ben-Shimon, Roy Assaf. After the death of their mother, a thirty-year-old woman from Jerusalem and her two brothers go to France in search of their biological father.
Runtime: 118 min.
Can. 2015. Dramatic comedy by François Bouvier with François Létourneau, Gilbert Sicotte, Julie Le Breton. In 1999, in the suburbs of Quebec City, a printer and aspiring cartoonist witnesses the slow decline of his father-in-law who has pancreatic cancer.
Runtime: 98 min.

The Wolves

V.O.: Les Loups
Can. 2014. Drama by Sophie Deraspe with Evelyne Brochu, Louise Portal, Benoît Gouin. A Montreal student lands on an island in the North Atlantic, where she arouses the suspicion of the matriarch, head of the sea bass hunting industry.
Runtime: 107 min.

The Happiness of Others

V.O.: Le Bonheur des autres
Can. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Philippe Pearson with Michel Barrette, Julie Le Breton, Louise Portal. By announcing that he is expecting a baby with his young girlfriend, a man offends his daughter, who is desperate to have a child, and his ex-wife, whom he had abandoned 20 years earlier.
Runtime: 101 min.

He Shoots, He Scores

V.O.: Lance et compte
Can. 2010. Sports drama by Frédérik D'Amours with Marc Messier, Marina Orsini, Jason Roy Léveillée. While a coach rebuilds his team after a tragedy, his wife uses the players' fame to help out workers threatened with layoffs.
Runtime: 120 min.
Can. 2009. Comedy by Robert Ménard with Pierre Richard, Rémy Girard, Sylvie Testud. A Parisian professor and his daughter inherit an inn in a village in the Saguenay region, that is coveted by a devious local mayor.
Runtime: 108 min.

Angel at Sea

V.O.: Un Ange à la mer
Bel. 2009. Drama by Frédéric Dumont with Martin Nissen, Olivier Gourmet, Anne Consigny. In Morocco, a depressed executive who has told his son that he intends to take his own life becomes the object of constant surveillance by his son.
Runtime: 86 min.
Can. 2006. Psychological drama by Maryanne Zéhil with Louise Portal, Renée Thomas, Hélène Mercier. When her father dies, a young Lebanese woman comes to Montreal to find her mother who abandoned her 17 years earlier.

Heading South

V.O.: Vers le Sud
Fr. 2005. Mores drama by Laurent Cantet with Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Ménothy Cesar. In Haiti in the late 1970s, two middle-aged American tourists compete for the favors of a young prostitute.
Runtime: 107 min.

The Barbarian Invasions

V.O.: Les Invasions barbares
Can. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Denys Arcand with Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze. A wealthy young financier tries to ease the last days of his father, an academic dying with cancer.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 2002. Police comedy by Louis Saïa with Stéphane Rousseau, Véronique Cloutier, Guy Nadon. A naive accountant is asked to deliver a large ransom to the kidnappers of a popular singer.

The Orphan Muses

V.O.: Les Muses orphelines
Can. 2000. Psychological drama by Robert Favreau with Fanny Mallette, Marina Orsini, Céline Bonnier. A young woman gathers her brother and sisters in the family home to announce the return of their mother, who left twenty years earlier.
Runtime: 107 min.
Can. 1999. Mores drama by Rodrigue Jean with David La Haye, Martin Desgagné, Louise Portal. The existential and emotional drift of a handful of friends living in a coastal village in New Brunswick.
Runtime: 90 min.
Can. 1998. Psychological drama by Yves Dion with Murray Head, Zoé Latraverse, Louise Portal. A bus driver. nostalgic for travel, meets an intriguing young girl who proposes to go with him to the South.
Can. 1996. Psychological drama by Pierre Gang with Richard Moffatt, Louise Portal, Isabelle Pasco.

Bye Bye Love

V.O.: Les Amoureuses
Can. 1993. Sentimental drama by Johanne Prégent with Louise Portal, Léa-Marie Cantin, Kenneth Welsh. While her best friend has just fallen in love, a forty-year-old woman is experiencing hardships in her relationship.
Runtime: 99 min.
Can. 1987. Poetic drama by Jean-Guy Noël with Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, Gilles Vigneault, Louise Portal. A doctor who is particularly fond of his daughter refuses to let her go to school until she picks a branch from a mythical tree.
Runtime: 84 min.
Can. 1986. Psychological drama by Robert Ménard with Louise Marleau, Michel Côté, Louise Portal. A divorced musician is plagued by obsessions and begins to fear madness.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Decline of the American Empire

V.O.: Le Déclin de l'empire américain
Can. 1986. Mores comedy by Denys Arcand with Dominique Michel, Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi. Having met for a meal in a villa in the country, four couples find their love lives put into perspective.
Runtime: 101 min.

Pierrot and Luce

V.O.: Larose, Pierrot et la Luce
Can. 1982. Dramatic comedy by Claude Gagnon with Richard Niquette, Luc Matte, Louise Portal. Two old friends meet again during the restoration of an old house belonging to one of them.
Runtime: 105 min.

Angel Life

V.O.: Vie d'ange
Runtime: 84 min

A Scream from Silence

V.O.: Mourir à tue-tête
Can. 1979. Social drama by Anne-Claire Poirier with Julie Vincent, Germain Houde, Monique Miller.
Runtime: 96 min.
Runtime: 115 min.
Can. 1974. Moral study by Richard Martin with Jean Duceppe, Catherine Bégin, Denise Filiatrault. In the fancy house of a nouveau riche, four couples exchange amenities.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Klutz

V.O.: Les Deux Pieds dans la même bottine
Can. 1973. Burlesque by Pierre Rose with Claude Michaud, Louise Portal, Roger Michael. As luck would have it, a scatterbrain comes into possession of money stolen from a bank and must do a lot to escape the police and bandits.
Runtime: 87 min.
Can. 1973. Mores drama by Clément Perron with André Melançon, Monique Lepage, Michèle Magny. In a village in Beauce, a simpleton is confronted with the hostility of the inhabitants.
Runtime: 90 min.

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