Eight plans for the weekend | Some ideas for the long weekend

The 51^e The New Cinema Festival is in full swing until October 16 with the screening of 291 films from 49 countries. To watch for this first weekend of activities: presentation of the new film by Walter Hill, Dead for a Dollar (Imperial cinema on Friday) in the presence of the director. On Saturday, from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., three more Walter Hill films will be screened during the nighttime event The Big Night of the Firemen. Also: Monday, La grande kermesse des P’tits loups offers a selection of short films for ages 3 and up at the Maison Théâtre. Free on reservation.

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The singer Tire le coyote continues his tour In the first round of evidence at Le Patriote theater in Sainte-Agathe on October 7 at 8 p.m. “A gentle and slow show, like his recent album, which warms the soul of the spectators”, wrote journalist Josée Lapointe on April 22, 2022.

The group Gorillaz is at the Bell Center on Saturday as part of its North American tour. Good tickets are always available. The British electronic music group (among others!) with an assumed eccentric universe will undoubtedly perform a few pieces from their next album, Cracker Islandexpected in February 2023. Note that the hip-hop duo from Atlanta EarthGang will provide the first part.

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This immersive performance by Émilie Monnet created in 2018 is repeated this month at Espace Go, where the multidisciplinary artist continues her artist residency. The solo available in three languages ​​(French, English and Anishinaabemowin) is built on the theme of dreams, which, according to the playwright, allows “the ancestors to communicate with us”. Okinum is interested, among other things, in interior barriers, “a poetic metaphor for the disease that hampers our bodies”, wrote Jean Siag on October 4, 2022.

The room The son by French playwright Florian Zeller is presented at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert until the end of October. Performances are scheduled for October 7 at 7:30 p.m. and October 8 at 4 p.m. “We have to admit it: Vincent-Guillaume Otis did not choose the easy way for his return to the boards. In The son, the actor must draw from the depths of his soul to embody Pierre, a powerless father in the face of the growing malaise of his eldest. The play signed by the French playwright Florian Zeller and directed by René Richard Cyr indeed offers a powerful score to the one we had not seen in the theater since 2015, ”wrote journalist Stéphanie Morin in her review published on September 30.

The 3^e Triennale Banlieue!, presented until October 30 at the Maison des arts de Laval, refreshes the mind as much as the body. “The original works of 19 artists or artist duos from Quebec, Canada and France evoke the place of nature in North American suburbs. Very inspiring edition,” wrote journalist Éric Clément on August 10, 2022.

With a tone perfectly modulated by a formidable cast, which also includes Fabiola N. Aladin, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Marie Brassard and Martin-David Peters, viking will delight fans of Stéphane Lafleur’s cinema. As a fourth feature film, the filmmaker offers a completely original story, which reveals something of our humanity while eradicating the intrinsic humor that stems from it, sometimes even with poetry. It’s not that common.

Ennio Morricone, a discreet man by nature, tells his story. And it’s exciting. We will obviously revisit all the greatest feats of arms of an incomparable career: his unforgettable collaboration with Sergio Leone (a classmate in primary school!), The Missiona film which upset him so much that he initially thought he could not compose anything, his ambiguous relationship with Hollywood, which was slow to recognize it, in short, all the milestones of an exceptional career are evoked, enriched with superb extracts visuals and sounds.