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The first narrative fiction feature film from Quebec to be directed by a woman, the film stars Liliane Lemaître-Auger and Véronique Le Flaguais as Isabelle and Virginie, colleagues at a film production company in Montreal, who dream of finding the perfect man but come to realize that reality doesn't live up to their fantasies.
Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
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- Mireille Dansereau
La vie rêvée: Directed by Mireille Dansereau. With Liliane Lemaître-Auger, Véronique Le Flaguais, Jean-François Guité, Guy Foucault. Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
- (89)
- Drama
- Mireille Dansereau
- 1975-06
- New Wave Meets Second Wave
- No Plot, Just Vibes
- Conclusion
On her first day at work at a Montreal production company, Isabelle (Liliane Lemaître-Auger) meets Virginie (Véronique Le Flaguais), and almost immediately, the two young women become inseparable. Virginie is an artist whose collage-style works critique the images of bourgeois perfection in the media and comment on the consumerism and sexism in soc...
Dream Life is stylistically similar to many of the films of the French New Wave; one is particularly reminded of Agnes Varda’s iconic portrait of female friendship and feminist struggle, One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, as well as Jean-Luc Godard’s anarchic fantasy of bourgeois rebellion, Pierrot Le Fou. Yet Dansereau’sfilm stands on its own two feet ...
For the last few decades, Dansereau has been toting Dream Lifearound to women’s studies classes in order for it to be seen. Hopefully, this lovely new restoration will help the film and its pioneering director receive the appreciation they deserve. What do you think? What other hidden gems of feminist cinema would you like to see rediscovered and r...
- Lee Jutton
The first Quebecois feature film directed by a woman, Dansereau’s feminist perspective on commercial culture still resonates. Two women strike up a titillating friendship, however this simple plot line is embedded in a deeper, complex fantastical world framed by desire and discovery.
Sep 10, 2012 · A film about sexism and women's liberation which is ideologically clear and cohesive, uncompromising, and well made. Two young girls, one working class, the other middle class, meet at...
Aug 1, 2023 · After starting a new job at a local film production company, free spirit Isabelle (Deaf to the City’s Liliane Lemaître-Auger) meets animator Virginie (Jesus ...
- 2 min
- 1803
- Canadian International Pictures
