The room The sisters-in-lawone of the great classics of Quebec theatre, will be brought to the big screen in a musical drama directed by director René Richard Cyr, we learned on Thursday.
This film project piloted by the Cinémaginaire production company (The Barbarian Invasions, From father to cop) is one of nine fiction feature films that received funding from the Cultural Business Development Corporation (SODEC) on Thursday morning. It will be an adaptation of the successful musical production that René Richard Cyr himself created on stage a dozen years ago from Michel Tremblay’s masterpiece. René Richard Cyr will write the screenplay and direct the film The sisters-in-law.
Among the other projects supported by SODEC, let us underline Ababouiné, the new offering of the enfant terrible of Quebec cinema, André Forcier (Hot water, fretted water, The Wyoming Wind), and Mlle Bottine, a youth film inspired by the Conte pour tous Bach and Bottine.
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Here is the list of new feature film projects financed by SODEC on Thursday:
Films with a total budget over $3.5 million:
- Ababoined : dramatic comedy by André Forcier set in the Faubourg à m’lasse of the 1950s
- Tell me why these things are so beautiful : new film by Lyne Charlebois (Borderline) co-scripted by Jean Barbe
- The chief and the customs officer : comedy written and directed by Manon Briand (Fluid turbulence)
- The sisters-in-law : adaptation of the musical piece of the same title, scripted and produced by René Richard Cyr.
- Miss Bootie : children’s film inspired by the Tale for all Bach and Bootie. Directed by: Yan Lanouette Turgeon
- Christmas trees : dramatic comedy by Stéphane Moukarzel
Films whose budget is equal to or less than $3.5 million:
- The weather : new film by François Delisle (Chorus, you)
- A universal language : poetic drama by Matthew Rankin (The twentieth century)
- Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal : fantastic comedy directed by Ariane Louis-Seize