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Last weekend to catch the Underground Art Festival! The event brings together until April 9 nearly thirty local and international artists who exhibit in public spaces in the city center: Place Ville Marie, the World Trade Center, the Palais des Congrès, the Jacques -Parizeau and the Place de la cité internationale… “ Born in the wake of Nuit blanche, thanks to the impetus of Frédéric Loury and the initial help of Michel Labrecque, Underground Art is, again this year, more than a deployment of art. It’s a way to animate and artistically transform the city’s underground network,” wrote our journalist Éric Clément.
The 10th edition of the Sherbrooke World Cinema Festival will open on April 6 at La Maison du Cinéma (63 King Street West), with the premiere screening of the film Des hommes, la nuit, by Anh Minh Truong, starring starring Pierre Verville, Jean-Moïse Martin and Édith Cochrane, among other performers. The World Cinema Festival will then continue until April 13, with the presentation of 90 films from 40 countries, in 5 locations across the city. The organizers also offer conferences, round tables and special events.
Presented in March at the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), the feature documentary Beyond the Paper by Oana Suteu Khintirian, produced by the NFB, will be able to be seen in theaters from April 7, at the Cinémathèque Quebec, in Montreal, and at Le Clap Place Sainte-Foy cinema, in Quebec. In this graphic film, the director undertakes a journey across the planet to better understand the infinite possibilities as well as the pitfalls of the digital shift; particularly with the question of preserving our heritage and our collective memory. Between her personal story and the global phenomenon of the digital shift, the filmmaker examines this transition in a lucid and poetic way. In Montreal, screenings on April 7, 9 and 10 at the Cinémathèque québécoise will be followed by a question and answer session with the filmmaker.
The play King Dave is presented at the Centaur Theater in the language of Shakespeare. The work written by actor Alexandre Goyette and then adapted to Quebec-Haitian culture features actor Patrick Emmanuel Abellard, who also signs the translation. The play is on view until April 16.
“Are you in the moon? Why not stay there? From April 4 to June 18, Moment Factory transforms Place Bonaventure into a dreamlike microcosm thanks to its new immersive art experience called Mirror Mirror (which, it should be noted, is not just for narcissistic perverts). This passport to “a chromatic and sound world inspired by creativity and consciousness” combines scenography, light, words, music and interactivity in five installations like so many odes to memory, imagination and to dreams. By crossing one of the three doors standing in front of him, the visitor will engage in a bewitching stroll in the heart of the world of waking dreams. All he has to do is take care not to salt his coffee.
The Exporail, located in Saint-Constant, on the South Shore of Montreal, offers a wide range of activities for children during the Easter weekend. On the menu: rabbit and chick hunt, as well as a cookie decorating workshop, in addition to the museum’s usual programming. Those who wish to take advantage of the good weather can take a ride on the miniature railway.
The first three tries of Dungeons and Dragons left us cold. What about the new version, starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant and Regé-Jean Page? “ We started from afar, but to date, it’s the one that has given us the most laughter and adventures, like in a game on the table between good friends ”, explains journalist Sylvain Sarrazin in his review. published on March 31.
Camillo (Jorge Martinez Colorado) does housekeeping at night. During the day, he sends CVs to find work as a chef after having had to close his restaurant. While he has cut ties with his daughter Tania (Eva Avila), the latter returns to him with a very particular request: to take care of her grandson while she undertakes a new rehab. “A reflection on life, with all its unforeseen events, its obstacles, and the choices that open up new trajectories, Le coyote is a sensitive, poetic and poignant portrait of characters and realities that we still see too little in our cinema. writes columnist Marc Cassivi in ​​his review published March 31.