Completed - FRENCH, ENGLISH - Drama, Comedy, Environmental - 102 minutes
The much anticipated next film of Quebec cinema’s bad boy.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : André FORCIER Writer(s) : André FORCIER, Jean BOILEAU, Linda PINET, François PINET-FORCIER, Renaud PINET FORCIER, Jo MILLETTE Cast : Roy DUPUIS, Yves JACQUES, Christine BEAULIEU, Juliette GOSSELIN, Émile SCHNEIDER, Mylène MACKAY, Donald PILON, Gaston LEPAGE, Louis CHAMPAGNE, Alejandro MORAN, Omar Alexis RAMOS, Jonathan JIMENO ROMERA, France CASTEL, Shoshana WILDER, Danyka BOILEAU-BONADUCE, Tania KONTOYANNI, Hélène REEVES, Louise LAPARÉ, Stéphane L'ÉCUYER Producer(s) : Louis LAVERDIÈRE (Les Films du Paria), Linda PINET (Les Films du Paria), Jean-françois ROESLER (Exogene Films)
Albert Payette (Roy Dupuis), a former agronomist turned beekeeper, greens the rooftops of Montreal with his nephew Jerry (Émile Schneider) to save bees. Bored with heaven, Brother Marie-Victorin (Yves Jacques), author of the Laurentian Flora and founder of Montreal’s Botanical Garden, returns to earth to help Albert.All the while, Albert introduces Marie-Victorin to his Honey-Mead which he sells to bourgeois ladies to finance his dream of retiring to idyllic Mingan. Lili de la Rosbil (Juliette Gosselin), an idealist journalist and Mathile Gavreau (Christine Beaulieu), a big-time lawyer, will go to great lengths to save Mexican agricultural labourers forced to work with poisonous chemicals from villainous multinational company Transgenia.
Country(ies) : CANADA
Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival 2019 (Official Selection)Festival du nouveau cinéma 2019 (Official Selection)Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue 2019 (Official Selection)Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie 2019 (Official Selection)Festival du film international de Baie-Comeau 2020 (Official Selection)International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 (Official Selection)Sept-Îles Film Festival 2020 (Official Selection)Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois 2020 (Official Selection)Festival international de cinéma et d'art de Percé 2020 (Official Selection)Devour! The Food Film Fest 2020 (Official Selection)Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival 2020 (Best Narrative Feature & Best Actor (Roy Dupuis))