Far Side of the Moon
Friday, July 23 at 7:00 pm
Canada - 105 minutes
Directed and written by Robert Lepage.
With Robert Lepage, Anne-Marie Cadieux and Marco Poulin
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Far Side of the Moon is an eye-catching, dramatic comedy about Philippe, a forty-something Québec City Doctoral student moonlighting as a telemarketer. He studies the philosophy of scientific culture and how space exploration is motivated by narcissism. The more he ponders the universe, the more he seems to lose his way in it. Tragedy prompts an uneasy truce with estranged gay brother André, an on-air meteorologist at a local TV station. Lepage plays both Philippe and André. Those new to Lepage’s visual inventiveness will marvel at the balance between the “what have I done with my life?” storyline and Lepages’s fascination with the cosmos and our exploration of it. Lepage’s plays have electrified the theater world, and the screenplay for this film is based on his play. Far Side of the Moon is his fifth feature film. Produced by Bob Krupinski and Mario St. Laurent. Cinematographer: Ronald Plante. Courtesy of Max Films. In French with subtitles.
Preceded by the short film
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Last Night at Mardi Gras
USA - 21 minutes
Directed by Nikki Nime
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On the road to New Orleans, Oliver, a prospective law student, finds himself on a traveling adventure with Audrey, a Frenchwoman destined for Mardi Gras.
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