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The Night Where Laurier Gaudreault Woke Up (La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s’est réveillé) is a Canadian miniseries written and directed by Xavier Dolan. It stars Julie LeBreton, Xavier Dolan and Patrick Hivon.

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One night in October 1991, the fate of Mimi, her brother Jules and their friend Logan is forever changed by a terrible incident which leads to their separation. Many years later, following her mother’s death, Mimi returns to her hometown and meets Jules for the first time since then. That is when they both realize that nothing can ever be the same.

The Night Where Laurier Gaudreault Woke Up (2022-) Director

Xavier Dolan

Cast

Julie Le Breton / Mireille Larouche

Xavier Dolan / Elliot Larouche

Patrick Hivon / Julien Larouche

Éric Bruneau / Denis Larouche

Magalie Lépine-Blondeau / Chantal Gladu

Julianne Côté / Stéfanie

Jasmine Lemée / Mireille (14 years old)

Elijah Patrice-Baudelot / Julien (16 years old)

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"Time helps and heals our mistakes." Club illico in Quebec has debuted the first official trailer for a series titled The Night Where Laurier Gaudreault Woke Up, also known as The Night Logan Woke Up. If you've been wondering when we'll see the next, new film from the acclaimed Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan - this is his latest project. But it's a series, not a new film this time, which is what so many directors are doing right now in these strange times for the film industry. This one follows the story of three friends whose lives are shattered after one commits rape. One October night in 1991, the destinies of Mireille, her brother Julien and their best friend Laurier are forever changed by a terrible incident and their paths go their separate ways. Both families are broken. Nothing will ever be the same again… This stars Patrick Hivon, Magalie Lépine Blondeau,...

Xavier Dolan, the filmmaker behind films such as “Mommy” and “Matthias & Maxime,” is preparing to make his television directorial debut.

Variety reported that Dolan is working on “The Night Logan Woke Up,” a psychological thriller miniseries that is adapted from Michel Marc Bouchard’s eponymous theater production. Dolan will write and direct the five-part series and is teaming with film production company StudioCanal, the Canal Plus premium TV network, and Quebecor Content for the project.

The miniseries will star original cast members from Bouchard’s play, including Dolan, Julie Le Breton, Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Éric Bruneau and Patrick Hivon, and Julianne Côté.

Per Variety, the series, which mixes horror, humor and drama, takes place in the early 1990s and follows Mimi and her brother Jules, who are best friends with Logan. The boys are on the baseball team and have just won the regional championship while Mimi dreams of a life in the theater.

Xavier Dolan (“Mommy”) is set to make his TV drama debut with Studiocanal and Quebecor Content on “The Night Logan Woke Up,” a psychological thriller mini-series adapted from Michel Marc Bouchard’s eponymous hit theater production.

Dolan will both write and direct the series, which he will also produce alongside Nanoby’s Nancy Grant and Jasmyrh Lemoine. The five-part series is expected to go into production in March 2021 and will air on Quebecor Content and Canal Plus in 2022.

Studiocanal has secured international distribution rights to the series. Javi Hernandez and Harry Grivakis of Vvs Films brokered the deals on behalf of the filmmakers and will serve as executive producers.

A poignant thriller weaving horror, humor and drama, the mini-series stars original cast members from the 2019 play, including Julie Le Breton, Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Éric Bruneau and Patrick Hivon, along with Dolan and Julianne Côté.

The story is set in the early...

Studiocanal, Canal+ and Quebecor Content are teaming up to produce Xavier Dolan’s (Mommy) first drama series, The Night Logan Woke Up.

The psychological thriller will chart the story of three friends whose lives are shattered after one of them commits rape. The five episode drama, which is due to start production in March 2021, will air as a Quebecor Content and Canal+ Original in 2022. Studiocanal will handle international distribution rights.

The show is adapted from Michel Marc Bouchard’s eponymous theatre production. Dolan will both write and direct and produce along with Nanoby’s Nancy Grant and Jasmyrh Lemoine. Javi Hernandez and Harry Grivakis of Vvs Films brokered the deals on behalf of the filmmakers and will serve as executive producers.

The series will star original cast members from the 2019 play including Julie Le Breton, Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Éric Bruneau and Patrick Hivon, along with Xavier Dolan and Julianne Côté,

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Besides being associated with careless joys and romantic exploits, part of summer’s seductive appeal is that, assuming one gets time off from daily responsibilities, it provides an opportunity to reassess and recharge. During this usually warm and relaxed time of he year people are expected to be more active, to spend time outside, and to utilize their time enjoying activities that their lifestyles don’t always allow them to.

Vacation sounds fun indeed, but when you are a young twenty-something struggling to find a clear path for the rest of your life, summer is more of a difficult transitioning period than a celebratory season. Once the fall comes reality will be there waiting to make its presence known. With unassuming intelligence and modest imagery, Stéphane Lafleur's imaginative Quebecois feature “Tu Dors Nicole” (You're Sleeping, Nicole) encompasses such feelings of youthful uncertainty.

Relishing each day she gets to spend home alone while her parents are out of town, Nicole (Julianne Côté) is a young woman without much going on in her life and in desperate need of purpose. Her suburban neighborhood lacks excitement and new faces to be enticed by. Most days, when she is not working at the local second hand clothing store, Nicole rides her bike and eats ice cream with her best friend Véronique to fight the ravaging heat. In turn, Véronique (Catherine St-Laurent), who is clearly the more colorful and friendly of the two, works in an office for an elderly man in order to afford repairing her true love - her car. It all seems like monotonous simplicity until Nicole decides to use her newly acquired credit card to pay for them to take a trip to the remote Scandinavian nation of Iceland.

To her surprise, however, her older brother Rémi (Marc-André Grondin) has decided to stay at their parents’ house as well, and he’s brought his band along to work on songs for an upcoming album. Instantly Nicole's plans for a few peaceful days before heading out on her adventure have vanished. She needs to get out of this quiet, unnamed town before she blows up. Magnifying her unbearable situation, she also suffers from insomnia and often wanders the streets at night to occupy her restless mind.

Ingenuously written to elicit thoughtful significance from what could be perceived as mundane incidents, “Tu Dors Nicole” is elegantly laced with magical realism that intensify the delicate dreamy atmosphere. In a collection of curiously comedic assets, an indelible highlight is Nicole’s interaction with 10-year-old Martin (Godefroy Reding), a precocious boy with the baritone voice of a seasoned adult man.

Shamelessly outspoken about his feelings for her, Martin tries to convince Nicole that is their destiny to be together. These moments are strangely charming and surreal at once. Lafleur is clever at including other elements along these lines, including whimsical sound effects to denote the endless possibilities his world offers, to make his audience question whether Nicole is walking in a dream or awake in a fantastical reality.

Although certainly not interested in Martin’s adorable advances, Nicole has her own unresolved love issues with and ex-boyfriend and is also tempted to pursue the mysterious Jf (Francis La Haye), one of her brother’s band mates. Everything that’s happening around her is part of growing up, and she is not ready to confront how quickly everything is changing even when it seems to remain static. Is not that she refuses to accept the inevitable obstacles of adulthood, but this summer has tested her loyalties and goals all at once.

Shot on 35mm by Sara Mishara, the film makes use of familiar surroundings and renders them interesting in a minimalist manner. Complementing this is Côté’s tranquil demeanor and almost imperceptible confidence that don’t expose much about how Nicole is feeling, but encourages the viewer to try to find out more about her. Also noteworthy is the way Lafleur, who is also a musician himself, employs the music that exist organically in is story, specifically from Rémi’s band, and the sounds of nature to score his work.

Reminiscent of Baumbach’s “Frances Ha,” both in tone and in its use of evocative black-and-white cinematography in a modern setting, Lafleur's film might come across as slight or unchallenging for those who seek evident philosophical statements or intricate plot twists. But it’s exactly in that unpretentiousness and effortless complexity that “Tu Dors Nicole” becomes more efficient at being memorable and insightful. Just like waking up from a delightful sleep-induced fantasy in which some sequences aren’t fully coherent, but knowing all them say something profound about you.

"Tu Dors Nicole" is now playing in NYC at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema and opens in Miami Beach on June 12th at the Miami Beach Cinematheque...

The title of Stéphane Lafleur’s Tu Dors Nicole translates as “You’re Sleeping, Nicole,” and somewhat appropriately, the film opens with its protagonist, recent college grad Nicole (Julianne Côté), waking up in bed. She’s naked and next to a man, but she wants no attachment to this unnamed one-night stand. She leaves the room and steps out onto the sidewalk, where her bike stands hitched to a fence with what appear to be 100 other bikes exactly like it. Nicole’s name might be in the movie’s title, but the anonymity of this opening is overwhelming; she could be anybody at this moment.Throughout the film, we’ll see Nicole sleeping, or waking, or trying to sleep, and Lafleur shoots her in a kind of soft, dreamy haze — surrounded by soft light and often standing apart, her angular features seemingly immovable. It’s summer in Quebec. Nicole’s parents are away,...

Quebec based filmmaker Stéphane Lefleur's wry slacker comedy Tu dors Nicole (You Are Sleeping, Nicole) stars Julianne Côté in the title role of Nicole, a 20-something young woman with one foot still firmly lodged in childhood and the other slightly hovering over somewhere else.It's the beginning of summer and her parents are away on vacation. She has a big house and an outdoor pool all to herself. Other than working at a local thrift shop, she spends most of her time either in bed or aimlessly walking/biking around town with her best friend, Véronique (Catherine St-Laurent) who works at an office. Their tranquil existence is shattered when Nicole's moody older brother and his band mates set up shop in their parents' living room to practice....

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Tu Dors Nicole Kino Lorber Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B Director: Stéphane Lafleur Screenwriter: Stéphane Lafleur Cast: Julianne Côté, Catherine St-Laurent, Marc-Andre Grondin, Francis La Haye Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 5/7/15 Opens: May 29, 2015 Coming of age films that take place during most people’s actual coming of age, namely late adolescence, brush shoulders with similar films about people in their thirties, who are concerned about their marriages, about how many kids, if any, they may want, or who are unfortunate enough to be contemplating divorce. “Tu dor Nicole,” which means “You’re sleeping, Nicole,” finds a middle ground, focusing principally on Nicole [ Read More ]

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"There's no need to tell lies at our age." Ain't that the truth. Kino Lorber has debuted an official Us trailer for the upcoming summer release of Quebecois filmmaker Stéphane Lafleur's indie comedy Tu dors Nicole, starring Julianne Côté & Marc-André Grondin. Presented in black & white, the film is a quirky comedy that has a Wes Anderson meets the Dardennes Brothers vibe to it, centering on the lead character Nicole played by Julianne Côté. Her carefree lifestyle encounters problems when her older brother shows up with his band. One review says it has "an air of wondrous restlessness in its minor ambitions". Worth a view. Here's the Us trailer for Stéphane Lafleur's Tu dors Nicole, on YouTube (found via The Film Stage): Nicole enjoys a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique until their plans take an unexpected turn. When Nicole's older brother shows up with his band to record an album,...

Quebec based filmmaker Stéphane Lefleur's wry slacker comedy Tu dors Nicole (You Are Sleeping, Nicole) stars Julianne Côté in the title role of Nicole, a 20 something young woman with one foot still firmly lodged in childhood and the other slightly hovering over somewhere else.It's the beginning of summer and her parents are away on vacation. She has a big house and an outdoor pool all to herself. Other than working at a local thrift shop, she spends most of her time either in bed or aimlessly walking/biking around town with her best friend, Véronique (Catherine St-Laurent) who works at an office. Their tranquil existence is shattered when Nicole's moody older brother and his band mates set up shop in their parents' living room to...

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Xavier Dolan tied contemporaries Philippe Falardeau and Denis Villeneuve by winning his second Best Feature award at the 17th annual Jutra Awards. Quebec’s answer to the Oscars was a rather suspense-less affair as Mommy claimed nine (plus the top box office award honor) awards winning in all major categories with the exclusion of Best Supporting Actor category win, which would only end up going to Dolan’s other nominated film, Tom at the Farm. Pierre-Yves Cardinal was sublime in his predatory type role and as was the case for several nominees, was hard at work on another project and therefore not on hand for trophyware. Ricardo Trogi’s throwback to awkward teen years tale 1987 did win a trio of awards, but if there were any surprises in the Dolan camp it was the acceptance speeches: Dolan delivered a keynote speech type quality for the last win of the night...

Xavier Dolan may have been miffed that his "Mommy" was left off the list of finalists for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, but he's surely pleased today that his film led the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's film slate. It picked up 13 nominations total. David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" was also strong. Check out the full list of nominees below. Winners will be revealed on March 1. And catch the rest at The Circuit! Best Motion Picture "Cast No Shadow" "Fall" "In Her Place" "Maps to the Stars" "Mommy" "Tu dors Nicole" Achievement in Direction Atom Egoyan, "Captive" Albert Shin, "In Her Place" David Cronenberg, "Maps to the Stars" Xavier Dolan, "Mommy" Stéphane Lafleur, "Tu dors Nicole" Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Ryan Reynolds, "The Captive" Bruce Greenwood, "Elephant Song" Michael Murphy, "Fall" Evan Bird, "Maps to the Stars" Antoine Olivier-Pilon, "Mommy" Performance by an...

Members of the Vancouver Film Critics Circle have finished up their annual barroom vote and settled on Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" as the year's best film. They went out on a respectable limb in the Best Actress race, however, opting for Tilda Swinton's "Only Lovers Left Alive" performance. Meanwhile, Stéphane Lafleur's "Tu dors Nicole" cleaned up in the Canadian categories. Check out the nominees here, the full list of winners below and the rest at The Circuit. International Best Film "Boyhood" Best Director Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman" Best Actor Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler" Best Actress Tilda Swinton, "Only Lovers Left Alive" Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash" Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood" Best Screenplay Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Best Foreign Language Film "Force Majeure" Best Documentary "The Overnighters" Canadian Best Canadian Film "Tu dors Nicole" Best Director of a Canadian Film Denis Villeneuve, "Enemy" Best Actor...

The Vancouver critics have just joined the party, always offering an interesting assortment of nominations given their practice of splitting off a whole separate section for Canadian films. "Birdman" led the way in the international list, while Xavier Dolan's "Mommy" led the way in the Canadian section (which will probably be cold comfort after his film was unceremoniously snubbed by the Academy's foreign film committee). Check out the full list of nominees below. Winners will be announced on Jan. 5. And, you know: The Circuit. International Best Film "Birdman" "Boyhood" "Whiplash" Best Director Wes Anderson, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman" Richard Linklater, "Boyhood" Best Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Imitation Game" Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler" Michael Keaton, "Birdman" Best Actress Marion Cotillard, "The Immigrant" Tilda Swinton, "Only Lovers Left Alive" Reese Witherspoon, "Wild" Best Supporting Actor Edward Norton, "Birdman" Mark Ruffalo, "Foxcatcher" J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash" Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette,...

Tu dors Nicole

Written and directed by Stéphane Lafleur

Canada, 2014

Tu dors Nicole is the newest feature film from Quebec filmmaker Stéphane Lafleur. The film premiered at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, a section specifically focused on emerging auteurs of the screen. Nicole (Julianne Côté) is 22 years old and is house-sitting while her parents are on vacation. She spends most of her days wandering aimlessly with her friend, Veronique. The atmosphere of ennui, though, is loudly interrupted when her brother and his band arrive, setting up shop in the family living room. The film explores the aimless summers of youth and the seemingly directionless future that awaits the young Nicole. She is withdrawn and sullen, but through a quiet surrealism Lafleur peels back the layers, evoking a sense of phantasmagoria, where reality and dream exist simultaneously.

Intentionally or not, Lafleur’s film quickly harkens back to another Quebec film...

★★★☆☆If one Nicole caught headlines earlier in the festival at the Palais with Olivier Dahan's much-maligned bioflop Grace of Monaco (2014), better notices should find themselves in line for another Nicole a short walk down the Cannes Croisette as part of Directors' Fortnight. That's where Stéphane Lafleur's Tu dors Nicole (2014) premièred at Cannes, a French-Canadian, idiosyncratic, Frances Ha-like comedy of an aimless 22-year-old just out of college, gorgeously shot in 35mm black and white, and very funny. It's a sweltering summer in suburban Quebec, and the parents of Nicole (Julianne Côté) are away. She's too old to still be living at home, but conversely has nowhere else to go.

Tu Dors Nicole

Director: Stéphane Lafleur

Writer: Stéphane Lafleur

Producers: micro_scope’s Luc Déry and Kim McCraw

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Julianne Côté, Catherine St-Laurent, Marc-André Grondin, Francis La Haye and Simon Larouche

The tendency of throwing his Coenesque character set into perilous type of predicaments should continue with his summer set, boys vs. girls titled Tu Dors Nicole. A third feature for Quebecois helmer Stéphane Lafleur, we fully expect to stick to the same black humor template found in his previous pair: the festival favorites Continental, un film and En terrain connu.

Gist: Enjoying the family home while her parents are away, Nicole (22 years old) is quietly spending the first weeks of her year off until her older brother Rémi shows up with his music group. The summer then takes an unexpected turn for Nicole and her best friend Véronique.

Release Date: Filming took place last...