Trente tableaux

Trente tableaux
Trente tableaux
Directed by	Paule Baillargeon
Release date	2011;
Running time	81 minutes

Trente tableaux (lit. Thirty paintings/pictures) is a 2011 Canadian autobiographical feature documentary by Quebec film director Paule Baillargeon, made during her two-year film residency with the National Film Board of Canada. It is an anthology film composed of 30 short portraits—or tableau vivant—of her 66 years of life to date, reflecting her experiences as a woman in Quebec's changing society.^[2]^[3]

Content

The film explores Baillargeon's feminist and sovereigntist views, her struggles with her depression, her childhood, the great landscapes of her native Abitibi-Témiscamingue, her daughter Blanche and her close relationship with her dog, Watam. She revisits pivotal moments in her life, including her experiences while directing her controversial 1979 film, La cuisine rouge, in which her actresses, inspired by the film's feminist message, insisted on improvising the end of the film.^[4]

Release

The film had its world premiere in October 2011 in Montreal, at the Festival du nouveau cinéma.^[5]

References

^ "Trente tableaux". Collection (in French). National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
^ Kelly, Brendan (23 March 2012). "Review: Trente tableaux". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 26 March 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Lussier, Marc-André (23 March 2012). "Trente tableaux: fragments d'une vie". La Presse (in French). Montreal. Retrieved 26 March 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Perreault, Catherine (11 October 2011). "Trente tableaux dans la vie de Paule Baillargeon". NFB Blog (in French). Montreal: National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
^ Désautels, Michel (7 October 2011). "Les Trente tableaux de Paule Baillargeon" (Radio interview with Paule Baillargeon). CBC News (in French). Montreal. Retrieved 26 March 2012.