Synopsis
In the mid-seventies, Montreal was at the top of its game: it was
the richest city in Canada, one of the largest cities in North
America, and was about to take center-stage once again with the
advent of the 1976 Olympic games. Montreal was also the epicenter
of the disco movement, a phenomenon that changed the face of
music, of fashion, and ushered in a lifestyle of unadulterated
freedom.
A bilingual dark tragedy with its comedic moments, and a cross
between “Magnolia” and “Saturday Night Fever”, FUNKYTOWN follows
the lives of a television variety show host who wants to become a
movie star, a has-been singing sensation who desperately wants to
make a comeback, an Italian disco dancing king who doesn’t want
to be gay, a beautiful super model who wants a singing career, a
jet-setting gossip columnist who wants to find true love, an
elderly mogul who wants to make a man out of his son, and a son
who needs to get rid of his father in order to become a man.
Juggling freedom and tradition, lovers and family, drugs and
sobriety, fame and anonymity, our characters are forced to make
sober choices in an era when excess was the norm, and when disco
was king.