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Apr 3, 1985 · La femme de l'hôtel: Directed by Léa Pool. With Paule Baillargeon, Louise Marleau, Marthe Turgeon, Serge Dupire. Making a film in her native town, a director finds inspiration in a woman, Estelle David, seen wandering through a hotel.
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- Drama
- Léa Pool
- 1985-04-03
Andrea Richler (Paule Baillargeon) is a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, she has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman named Estelle (Louise Marleau).
At her hotel, Paule has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman (Louise Marleau). This element of the plot is briefly forgotten as we get to know the actors in Paule's current project.
La femme de l’hôtel is a forceful study of identity, solitude and the role of fiction in understanding experience. Léa Pool, the film's director, described La femme de l’hôtel as a modernist drama about “rootlessness, not belonging, and internal exile.”
At her hotel, Paule has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman (Louise Marleau). This element of the plot is briefly forgotten as we get to know the actors in Paule's current project.
- Léa Pool
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Tournant un film dans sa ville natale, une réalisatrice trouve l'inspiration chez une femme, Estelle David, qui erre dans un hôtel. Cela l'aide à mieux définir le rôle qu'elle écrit pour sa comédienne, une artiste polyvalente qui excelle aussi bien dans le jeu dramatique que dans la chanson.
Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by Swiss-born director Lea Pool is autobiographical. Paule Baillargeon portrays a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama.
