First days of June. And we are already experiencing a first heat wave! Here are some suggestions if you want to take refuge in air conditioning.
The 6th edition of Dr. Mobilo Aquafest will be held from June 1 to 10. Three Montreal locations are targeted for the occasion: the Quai des Brumes, the Fairmount Theater and the Ritz PDB. The event offers a diversified program: Tranna Wintour, Coco Belliveau and Mona de Grenoble will present monologues, a series dedicated to the next generation with Colin Boudrias, Anne-Sarah Charbonneau, Brian Piton, Rafaële Bolduc, Noémie Leduc Roy, Zach Poitras and Martin Lauzon, as well as a musical evening, presented by the LUNES and Les Insoumises collectives, featuring, among others, Safia Nolin, Miss Sassœur and Lou Laurence.
The 24th Outaouais Film Festival (FFO) will be dedicated to the memory of Michel Côté, who passed away on May 29. C. R. A. Z. Y will be presented at Cinéma 9 in Gatineau on June 4 at 7 p.m. The FFO is held from June 1 to 9.
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens present Cendrillon from May 31 to June 4, at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts. Choreographed by Australian Jayne Smeulders, the ballet will feature more than 150 costumes and new sets. Additional ones are scheduled for September 8 and 9.
Young virtuoso Stéphane Tétreault will be accompanied by seven other cellists and bandoneonist Denis Plante for the inaugural concert of the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, which begins on Sunday. The Cello on Fire! is presented at Bourgie Hall, Sunday at 3:30 p.m., and will feature music by Bach, compositions by Denis Plante and works by tango immortals Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzolla.
Until Sunday, do not miss the annual meeting of the Montreal Poetry Festival, which has been in full swing since Monday in various places in the city. Starting this Thursday evening, the Poetry Market will bring together some sixty publishers at Place Gérald-Godin, on the Plateau Mont-Royal, while the poets of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (including Baron Marc-André Lévesque and Renée Gagnon) will live in the parc Raymond-Préfontaine on Saturday, starting at 5:30 p.m. Open-air public readings and discussions in participating bookstores are also on the program.
Starting Thursday, the 22 graduate artists of the National Circus School take to the track at TOHU to show the extent of their acrobatic talent. In this show entitled Parades and imagined by Marie-Josée Gauthier, several arts are invited, including the smooth rope, aerial straps, juggling and the Korean board. A show that is said to be bewitching, to end these pivotal and demanding years in fireworks.
From June 1 to 11 at TOHU.
Disney uses here the formula proposed for a few years. After Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, it was the turn of The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey (Ariel) Jonah Hauer-King (Prince Eric) and Melissa McCarthy (Ursula), to be remade in real views. “Like its predecessor, the feature is good family entertainment that many die-hard fans will enjoy listening to with their offspring,” journalist Véronique Larocque told us in her review published on May 26.
You Hurt My Feelings tells the story of Beth (Julia-Louis Dreyfuss), an author who overhears a conversation from her husband (Tobias Menzies) in which he really says what he thinks of his work. The film also stars Michaela Watkins as Beth’s sister, as well as Arian Moayed, who plays Mark, a failed actor. “It is this vivid representation of a banal conflict, of a situation without much interest, which is the strength of the film. There are no twists and turns, nothing to chew on for those who love films that rivet them to their armchair, and yet, the story of Beth and Don charms us. The dialogues are realistic and often amusing. Everyday scenes become captivating in the eye of the director,” writes journalist Marissa Groguhé in her review published on May 26.
