GRANDE SÉDUCTION (LA)

A resident of the tiny port village of Sainte-Marie-La-Mauderne, Germain tries to convince a multinational corporation to set up a factory on the outskirts of town. Once a fishing port, Sainte- Marie-La-Mauderne has fallen on hard times and most of its residents are now unemployed. In order to meet the multinational’s insurance requirements, Germain must persuade a doctor to set up practice in the village. Led by Germain, the 150 villagers do everything in their power to convince a young doctor to settle in the community. As they come closer and closer to their goal, and acknowledging that, in their relationship with the doctor, they have walked a fine line between persuasion and lying, Germain and the other villagers find themselves having to choose between their factory… and their integrity as a community.

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Jean-François Pouliot
Director

After graduating with a degree in communications from Concordia University, Jean-François Pouliot began working as an assistant cameraman, most notably on Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America and Tony Richardson’s The Hotel New Hampshire. In 1982, he joined Cossette Communications Marketing, Canada’s largest advertising agency. As Creative Head, he won the Grand Prix du Mondial de la Publicité for L’Italienne, a commercial for McDonald’s Restaurants which was shown in several countries. In 1988, he became a director at La Fabrique d’images, one of Canada’s leading TV-commercial production companies. La grande séduction is his first feature film.

35 mm

110 minutes

Colour

Aspect ratio

1.85

Producers

Roger Frappier

Luc Vandal

Director

Jean-François Pouliot

Scriptwriter

Ken Scott

Director of Photography

Allen Smith

Editing

Dominique Fortin

Sound

Claude Hazanavicius

Art Director

Normand Sarrazin

Costume Designer

Louise Gagné

Music

Jean-Marie Benoît

Cast

Raymond Bouchard

David Boutin

Pierre Collin

Benoît Brière

Rita Lafontaine

Lucie Laurier

Production

Max Films inc.
1751, rue Richardson
Bureau 2.102
Montreal, Quebec
H3K 1G6
(514) 282-8444
(514) 282-9222
info@maxfilms.ca
www.maxfilms.ca

Distribution – Canada

Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm
455, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest
Bureau 300
Montreal, Quebec
H2Z 1J1
(514) 878-2282
(514) 878-2419
info@allianceatlantisvivafilm.com
www.allianceatlantisvivafilm.com

International distribution

Max Films International inc.
1751, rue Richardson
Bureau 2.102
Montreal, Quebec
H3K 1G6
(514) 282-8444
(514) 282-9222
international@maxfilms.ca
www.maxfilms.ca

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