Louise Carré
Louise Carré (born February 1, 1936) is a Canadian film director and producer from Quebec, most noted for her 1980 film It Can't Be Winter, We Haven't Had Summer Yet (Ça peut pas être l'hiver, on n'a même pas eu d'été).[1]
An administrator with the National Film Board of Canada in the 1970s, she began her active filmmaking career as a screenwriter on Anne Claire Poirier's 1975 film Before the Time Comes (Le Temps de l'avant).[2] In 1978 she launched her own production company, La Maison des Quatre.[3]
It Can't Be Winter, about a woman learning to become more independent after the death of her husband, won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 1980 Montreal World Film Festival.[4] She subsequently served for several years as director of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.[5]
Carré followed up in 1986 with A Question of Loving (Qui a tiré sur nos histoires d'amour?),[6] but concentrated principally on producing, most notably on Mireille Dansereau's 1987 film Deaf to the City (Un sourd dans la ville),[7] until returning to directing with the 1997 documentary film My Heart Is My Witness (Mon cœur est témoin).[8]
References
[edit]- ^ William Johnson, "Two films share theme, but miles apart in style". The Globe and Mail, September 30, 1980.
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Temps de l’avant, Le – Film de Anne Claire Poirier". Films du Québec, April 27, 2009.
- ^ Michel Coulombe, "Entretien avec Louise Carré". Ciné-Bulles, Vol. 5, No. 4 (May-July 1986). pp. 4-9.
- ^ Pascal Mallet, "Un Festival sous le signe de l'austérité". Le Quotidien, September 2, 1980.
- ^ Léo Bonneville, "Louise Carré tourne…". Séquences, January 1986.
- ^ "Movie says daughters often pay for mothers' liberation struggle". Ottawa Citizen, May 26, 1986.
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Sourd dans la ville, Le – Film de Mireille Dansereau". Films du Québec, March 14, 2009.
- ^ Kathryn Greenaway, "Mon Coeur is window on world of Muslim women: French-language documentary aims to change perceptions of their reality". Montreal Gazette, April 3, 1997.
External links
[edit]- Louise Carré at IMDb
- 1936 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian screenwriters
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian women screenwriters
- Canadian women film directors
- Canadian women film producers
- Canadian women documentary filmmakers
- Canadian film production company founders
- Canadian documentary film directors
- Canadian documentary film producers
- Film directors from Quebec
- Film producers from Quebec