The Favourite Game

The Favourite Game (2003)

November 30, 2020

As a k..d, Leo thought he possessed, like a magician, the secret power to make things happen. As a young man, he certainly knows how to make things happen with women. But as his best friend Krantz would say to him, “Why do you always ask questions you already know answers to?” Leo believes firmly in what he invents from one day to the next. Images, impressions, stories fill his head. That’s just how he is: life, for Leo, is just a game. Behind this childlike attitude, hides the very essence of his own life’s quest.

Paris, France

Paris, France (1993)

Lucy (Leslie Hope), her husband Michael (Victor Ertmanis), and their business partner William (Dan Left) are the owners of a small publishing company in Toronto. The stability of their lives are thrown into an emotional maelstrom with the arrival of Sloan (Peter Outerbrige), a former boxer-turned-writer whose first book (based on a serial killer) is about to be published by their company. Sloan gets in over his head when he embarks on a steamy affair […]

Infidelity in Suburbia (2017)

With her husband away at work, and her son at school, Laura dreams of a home-renovation project to supplant her restless days. Vince, her irresistibly hot private contractor, soon fulfills her more forbidden dreams. Wracked with guilt she ends their affair, but Vince’s cravings run deeper and darker than Laura imagines. In the basement of Laura’s suburban home, Vince is building a special room just for her. It’s a secret place to hide the object […]

Boris Without Beatrice

Boris Without Beatrice (2016)

July 9, 2020

Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain arrogance when it comes to his successes. For some time now, his wife Béatrice, a Canadian government minister, has been bedridden, suffering from a mysterious depression. To escape from his wife’s agony, Boris begins a relationship with a colleague, Helga, and gets close to Klara, a young woman who works as a maid in Boris’s home. The sudden appearance of a stranger in his life forces Boris to come face-to-face with the world, with everything he takes for granted, with all his certainties.