Anne Trister is a 1986 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool, and written by Pool and Marcel Beaulieu.Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 15. Starring Albane Guilhe, Louise Marleau and Lucie Laurier, the film follows a Swiss Jewish artist who leaves for Quebec after her father’s death. It won the Genie Award for Best Cinematography and was screened in competition at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.
Synopsis Anne Trister is a Swiss Jewish artist grieving the death of her father. She stops her studies and travels from Switzerland to Quebec, where she visits her friend Alix, a psychologist, and develops feelings for her. Anne also begins work on a large fresco in an unused studio.
Cast The cast includes:
Albane Guilhe as Anne Louise Marleau as Alix Lucie Laurier as Sarah Guy Thauvette as Thomas Hugues Quester as Pierre Nüvit Özdogru as Simon Kim Yaroshevskaya as the mother
Production The film was written by Marcel Beaulieu and Léa Pool, based on an original idea by Pool. It was produced by Films Vision 4 and the National Film Board of Canada, with an approximate budget of C$1.38 million. Filming took place from 18 March to 3 June 1985 in Montreal, Lausanne, Geneva and Tel Aviv.
Release The film premiered on 3 February 1986, in Quebec,Bruce Bailey, "Anne Trister's subtle - but it's also far too arty and pretentious". Montreal Gazette, February 8, 1986. and was screened in competition at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival."Lea Pool takes over Quebec movie spotlight". Regina Leader-Post, February 18, 1986.
Critical response Ron Base of the Toronto Star wrote that the film "is as pristine and as empty as a modern art gallery at midnight" and called it a film "about emotion, empty of emotion". He concluded that although Anne Trister had "moments of beauty and emotion", much of it returned to "a studied, almost smug self-consciousness", and that its exploration was unsuccessful.Ron Base, "Trister mired deep in her pretensions". Toronto Star, March 27, 1987.
Noel Taylor of the Ottawa Citizen wrote that "there's no denying Anne Trister is technically an accomplished work, but its skill is more clinical than visceral. It excites admiration for Pool, the film-maker, without arousing much interest in Pool, the person. I would have liked to discover more."Noel Taylor, "Mixed-up artist a heroine of few words, two expressions". Ottawa Citizen, May 29, 1987.
For the Montreal Gazette, Bruce Bailey wrote that "while Pool's talent for spareness and subtlety is carried over from that film to Anne Trister, this latest effort suffers to at least some extent from slow pacing and an arty pretentiousness that is at times almost laughable."
Filmdienst described the film as a sensitive and thematically rich study of the search for identity and new meaning in life, while noting reservations about its combination of realistic and metaphorical scenes.
Awards and nominations Award Year Category Recipients Result International Women’s Film Festival, Créteil 1986 Audience Award Anne Trister Genie Awards1987 Best Supporting Actress Lucie Laurier "Nominees for Genie awards". Ottawa Citizen, February 5, 1987. Best Cinematography Pierre Mignot Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . Best Original Song Danielle Messia, "De la main gauche"The song was named the original winner of the award, but it was subsequently rescinded after the academy discovered that it had not been written for the film. "Academy rescinds Genie award". The Globe and Mail, May 12, 1987. Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival 1992 Best Feature Film
See also List of LGBT-related films directed by women
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