Desire in Motion
1994 Canadian film
- February 3, 1994 (1994-02-03) (RVCQ)
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Desire in Motion (French: Mouvements du désir) is a French-Canadian drama film, directed by Lea Pool and released in 1994.[1]
Inspired by texts such as Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, Francesco Alberoni's Falling in Love and the autobiography of Carl Jung,[2] the film stars Jean-François Pichette and Valérie Kaprisky as Vincent and Catherine, a man and woman falling in love as they meet and get acquainted on a train trip to Vancouver.[3]
The film premiered at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois on February 3, 1994.[4]
Awards
The film received eight Genie Award nominations at the 15th Genie Awards: Best Actress (Kaprisky), Best Director (Pool), Best Original Screenplay (Pool), Best Art Direction/Production Design (Serge Bureau), Best Costume Design (Sabina Haag), Best Editing (Michel Arcand), Best Overall Sound (Hans Künzi, François Musy, Florian Eidenbenz and Jo Caron) and Best Sound Editing (Jacques Plante, Antoine Morin, Jérôme Décarie and Michel Arcand).[5]
References
- ^ "Queen of melancholy puts a love story on the rails: Jean-Francois Pichette and Valerie Kaprisky in Mouvements du Desir". Montreal Gazette, January 6, 1994.
- ^ "Director mines deep veins of love's nuances". Toronto Star, June 24, 1994.
- ^ "A love story with brains and beauty". Toronto Star, June 24, 1994.
- ^ "Moving Mouvements opens festival of Quebec cinema". Montreal Gazette, February 4, 1994.
- ^ "The Genie nominees". Kingston Whig-Standard, October 20, 1994.
External links
- Desire in Motion at IMDb
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Films directed by Léa Pool
- Strass Cafè (1980)
- A Woman in Transit (1984)
- Anne Trister (1986)
- Straight for the Heart (1988)
- Rispondetemi (1991)
- The Savage Woman (1991)
- Desire in Motion (1994)
- Set Me Free (1999)
- Lost and Delirious (2001)
- The Blue Butterfly (2004)
- Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (2008)
- The Last Escape (2010)
- Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011)
- The Passion of Augustine (2015)
- Worst Case, We Get Married (2017)
- Hotel Silence (2024)
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