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Pascale Bussières

Pascale Bussières

Canadian actress
June 27, 1968 (56 years old)
Can. 2023. Drama by Simon Lavoie with Jean-François Casabonne, Monique Gosselin, Guy Thauvette. A Quebec lawyer goes to the Balkans to defend a war criminal, much to the dismay of his wife, herself a refugee from that region.
Runtime: 112 min.

Frontiers

V.O.: Frontières
Can. 2022. Drama by Guy Édoin with Pascale Bussières, Christine Beaulieu, Marilyn Castonguay. A farm woman from the Eastern Townships, who lives with her daughter and two sisters, comes to believe that the property is haunted by the spirit of her late father.
Runtime: 94 min.
Can. 2021. Drama by Caroline Monnet with Devery Jacobs, Pascale Bussières, Jacques Newashish. Back in the Indigenous community where she grew up, a law student becomes involved in a controversial debate over the sale of alcohol.
Runtime: 81 min.
Lux. 2019. Thriller by Pol Cruchten with Martin McCann, Pascale Bussières, Yves Jacques. A police officer tracks down an activist who kidnapped the Canadian Minister of Environment and three industrialists, in order to try them on the Internet for crimes against the planet.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 2018. Essay film by Jennifer Alleyn with Jennifer Alleyn, Pascale Bussières, Emmanuel Schwartz. Having undertaken the production of a film about her heartbreak, a filmmaker is forced to change her plans during the shooting.
Runtime: 94 min.
Can. 2017. Drama by Jean-François Asselin with Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Pascale Bussières, Jean-Michel Anctil. A depressed architect joins a Montreal firm to design the plans for an art centre, which must however be signed by a renowned colleague who has suddenly disappeared.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 2017. Comedy by Marc-André Lavoie with Emmanuel Bilodeau, Réal Bossé, Sandrine Bisson. The close interrogation of a man who has compromised himself by wanting to help various people or to take revenge on those who have abused or humiliated him.
Runtime: 89 min.
Parental Guidance
Can. 2017. Drama by Noël Mitrani with Laurent Lucas, Laurence Dauphinais, Natacha Mitrani. After the tragic death of his six-year-old daughter’s best friend, a remorseful father begins psychotherapy using unconventional methods.
Runtime: 94 min.
Can. 2016. Drama by Wiebke von Carolsfeld with Imajyn Cardinal, Pascale Bussières, Brandon Oakes. When her mother dies suddenly, an Indigenous teenager, now without a family, vows to make it on her own.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Demons

V.O.: Les Démons
Can. 2015. Drama by Philippe Lesage with Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Pier-Luc Funk, Victoria Diamond. While a wave of kidnappings of boys is raging in his residential neighbourhood of Longueuil, a 10-year-old boy is gradually overcome by his fears.
Runtime: 115 min.
Can. 2015. Psychological drama by Maryanne Zéhil with Arsinée Khanjian, Raia Haidar, Béatrice Moukhaiber. The parallel destinies of a Lebanese woman depending on whether or not she managed to immigrate to Canada in November 1974.
Runtime: 79 min.
Can. 2015. Thriller by Charles-Olivier Michaud with Anna Mouglalis, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Pascale Bussières. While investigating human trafficking in Asia, a Franco-Quebec photojournalist becomes a victim of the atrocious practices of the triads.
Runtime: 109 min.
Can. 2015. Psychological drama by Guy Édoin with Pascale Bussières, Monica Bellucci, Aliocha Schneider. A road accident brings together the destinies of a nurse, a paramedic, and a French actress who, during a shoot in Montreal, tries to reconnect with her son.
Runtime: 100 min.

Love Project

V.O.: Love Projet
Can. 2014. Drama by Carole Laure with Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Benoît McGinnis, Natacha Filiatrault. The dreams, aspirations and disenchantments of several young artists intertwine as they rehearse a new piece combining dance and song.
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 2013. Sentimental comedy by Guillaume Lonergan with Émilie Bibeau, Jean-François Nadeau, Guillaume Perreault. Having cheated on her lover on the eve of their wedding, a young woman trying to atone for her mistake is manipulated by a friend who is secretly in love with her.
Runtime: 88 min.

Fear of Water

V.O.: La Peur de l'eau
Can. 2011. Crime drama by Gabriel Pelletier with Pierre-François Legendre, Brigitte Pogonat, Normand D'Amour. Skeptical of the conclusions of a Montreal detective, a sergeant of the S
Runtime: 122 min.

Wetlands

V.O.: Marécages
Can. 2011. Drama by Guy Édoin with Pascale Bussières, Gabriel Maillé, Luc Picard. A teenager, who accidentally caused the death of his farmer father, is suspicious of a stranger who hangs around his mother under the guise of helping her.
Runtime: 111 min.
Can. 2011. Comedy by Kevin Tierney with Pascale Bussières, Gavin Crawford, Fred Ewanuick. For two weeks, various English-speaking Canadians and foreigners participate in a French immersion program in a village in the Saguenay.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 2010. Documentary by Ninon Larochelle.
Runtime: 62 min.
Can. 2008. Psychological drama by Jean-Marc Piché with Yannick Bisson, Pascale Bussières, Kenneth Welsh. The complicated love life of a thirty-year-old man who hides away at home, unable to face the outside world.
Can. 2007. Psychological drama by Carole Laure with Catherine De Léan, Laurent Lucas, Pascale Bussières. In order to avenge her mother and younger brother, a young woman kidnaps her abusive father in the hope of changing him.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 2007. Drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Micheline Lanctôt, Gabriel Gaudreault, Pascale Bussières. On one Halloween night in Montreal, a depressed female cab driver takes an autistic boy, whose parents are at the end of their rope, under her wing .
Runtime: 94 min.

René

V.O.: René Lévesque
Can. 2006. Biography by Giles Walker with Emmanuel Bilodeau, Pascale Bussières, Lucie Laurier. The life and career of former Quebec journalist and politician Ren
Runtime: 270 min.

The Little Book of Revenge

V.O.: Guide de la petite vengeance
Can. 2006. Dramatic comedy by Jean-François Pouliot with Marc Béland, Michel Muller, Pascale Bussières. With the help of a former employee from the jewelry store where he works, an accountant on the verge of a burnout decides to take revenge on his horrible boss.
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 2004. Adventures by Léa Pool with Marc Donato, William Hurt, Pascale Bussières. A child suffering from cancer convinces an entomologist to go capture a rare butterfly in Central America with him.
Runtime: 97 min.

Alys Robi: Bittersweet Memories

V.O.: Ma vie en cinémascope
Can. 2004. Biography by Denise Filiatrault with Pascale Bussières, Michel Barrette, Denis Bernard. In 1952, on the verge of undergoing a lobotomy, singer Alys Robi recalls the highlights of her life and career.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 2003. Dramatic comedy by Pascal Bonitzer with Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Pascale Bussières. A disenchanted communist journalist in love witb several women at once has a strange experience in a wood near Grenoble.

Chaos and Desire

V.O.: La Turbulence des fluides
Can. 2002. Drama by Manon Briand with Pascale Bussières, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Julie Gayet. A young seismologist called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Baie-Comeau tide falls in love with a water bomber pilot.
Runtime: 115 min.
Can. 2002. Psychological drama by Jean-François Pothier with Pascale Bussières, Caroline Dhavernas, Pierre-Luc Brillant. A young woman spends the summer on the family farm with her son, her boyfriend and her younger sister, from whom she has always hidden their father's suicide.

Replay

V.O.: La Répétition
Fr. 2001. Mores drama by Catherine Corsini with Emmanuelle Béart, Pascale Bussières, Jean-Pierre Kalfon. After ten years without contact, a theatre actress finds an admiring and envious childhood friend who quickly becomes invasive.

Entre la Lune et Montevideo

V.O.: Between the Moon and Montevideo
Can. 2001. Science-fiction by Attila Bertalan with Attila Bertalan, Pascale Bussières, Gérald Gagnon. In the future, a scrap metal worker tries to escape from a ghetto planet located between the Earth and the Moon.
Can. 2000. Science-fiction by Allan Moyle with Stephen Baldwin, Pascale Bussières, Kyle MacLachlan. In the future, a man whose body was taken by a terrorist has his mind transferred into an android with a limited life expectancy.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 1999. Psychological drama by Jean Beaudin with James Hyndman, Pascale Bussières, Pierre-Luc Brillant. A paraplegic painter receives nightly calls from an old friend who shares a dark secret with him.

Pandora's Beauty

V.O.: La Beauté de Pandore
Can. 1999. Sentimental drama by Charles Binamé with Pascale Bussières, Jean-François Casabonne, Maude Guérin. A Montreal entrepreneur meets a mysterious woman who turns his life upside down.
Runtime: 92 min.

August 32nd on Earth

V.O.: Un 32 août sur Terre
Can. 1998. Dramatic comedy by Denis Villeneuve with Pascale Bussières, Alexis Martin, Richard S. Hamilton. A young woman who survived a car accident convinces her best friend to have a child with her in the salt desert near Salt Lake City.
Runtime: 89 min.
Can. 1998. Psychological drama by Léa Pool with Karine Vanasse, Miki Manojlovic, Pascale Bussières. In 1963, in a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal, the difficult family and emotional experiences of a teenager.
Runtime: 94 min.
Can. 1997. Fantasy by Guy Maddin with Pascale Bussières, Nigel Whitmey, Shelley Duvall. On a strange island where the sun never sets, various characters live out love affairs shrouded in mystery.
Runtime: 92 min.
Can. 1997. Mores comedy by Bruce McDonald with Pascale Bussières, Robert Cavanah, Tanya Allen.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 1996. Mores comedy by Joan Carr-Wiggin with Pascale Bussières, Stephen Shellen, Blake Boyd.
Runtime: 93 min.
Can. 1995. Psychological drama by Patricia Rozema with Pascale Bussières, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny.
Runtime: 94 min.
Runtime: 108 min.

Two Can Play

V.O.: Deux Actrices
Can. 1993. Psychological drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Pascale Bussières, Pascale Paroissien, Louise Latraverse. One day, a young daycare worker is visited by a stranger who claims to be her older sister.
Runtime: 94 min.

Phantom Life

V.O.: La Vie fantôme
Can. 1992. Mores drama by Jacques Leduc with Ron Lea, Pascale Bussières, Johanne-Marie Tremblay. A married man has an extramarital relationship with a young bookseller.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 1990. Psychological drama by Jean Salvy with Louise Marleau, Gilles Renaud, Pascale Bussières. Unable to console herself with the death of her teenage son, a woman jeopardizes her second marriage.
Can. 1988. Comedy by George Mihalka with Rémy Girard, Pascale Bussières, Jessica Barker. A country priest is entrusted with the two daughters of a former friend imprisoned for trafficking counterfeit money.
Runtime: 82 min.
Can. 1984. Psychological drama by Micheline Lanctôt with Pascale Bussières, Marcia Pilote, Pierre Fauteux. The problems of two teenage girls who suffer from the indifference of the world around them.
Runtime: 90 min­.

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