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Le cortège
By
Rodolphe Saint-Gelais , Pascal BlanchetDuration
11 MIN
Language
French
Country
Quebec
Year
2019
Synopsis
After Catherine’s fatal car accident, she speaks from the beyond to her grieving husband, Philip, who must endure the family ritual of the funeral. The Procession is an elegant poem in black, white, and pink that shows us how, despite the pressure to keep up appearances, love finds a way.
Direction
Rodolphe Saint-Gelais
Self-taught Montreal artist Rodolphe Saint-Gelais is an animator and illustrator whose work in one field fuels his work in the other. After designing, animating or directing a number of ads and TV productions, he ventured into the world of filmmaking with the feature-length Dédé à travers les brumes (2009), whose opening sequence he drew and animated.
Over the last decade, Rodolphe has remained active on both fronts, designing the visuals for several animated series (Télé-Québec, Historia, TFO) in addition to pursuing a career as a painter. Le cortège is his first film with the NFB.
Direction
Pascal Blanchet
Born in Trois-Rivières, Pascal Blanchet is a self-taught illustrator whose interests include music, architecture and 20th-century design. His cartoon strips and graphic novels have received multiple awards over the last 15 years, including the Prix Bédélys Québec for graphic novel of the year (La fugue, 2005), the Grand-Prix Lux (Rapide-Blanc, 2007), and a Ragazzi Award at the Bologna Book Fair (Le Noël de Marguerite, written by India Desjardins and illustrated by Pascal, 2014). Le cortège is the first film that he co-directs.
Animation
Nicolas Brault
Brenda Lopez Zepeda
Rodolphe Saint-Gelais
Music
Philippe Brault
Pierre Lapointe
Editing
Isabelle Malenfant
Michel Pelland
Sound designer
Sacha A. Ratcliffe
Screenplay
Pascal Blanchet
Sylvain Charbonneau
Narration
Marie-Thérèse Fortin
Original Title
Le cortège