Feature drama, B/W and
colour, 35 mm
Available in the original English version and the dubbed French version

 

 

FOREIGN GHOSTS
A film by Hunt Hoe
133 minutes 1997
A Foreign Ghosts
Production.

"With wit and poignance, ...
Hunt Hoe captures that Montreal
je ne sais quoi ... impressive
performances."
-Matthew Hays, MIRROR

" ... ambitious, sympathetically
acted ... timely."
-John Griffin, THE GAZETTE

"It's through the new perception
of an immigrant that we revisit Montreal,
that we rediscover our society and the misunderstandings that pave
the way to integration. Here's an
enlightening and welcome film."
-Francine Laurendeau, RADIO-CANADA

" ... a refreshing perpective on Montreal ... exposing it's diversity ... a reality that is
too often unfamiliar to us."
-Marc André Lussier,LA PRESSE

" ... A sincerity, an authenticity, and
also a pleasing perfume of liberty."
-Martin Bilodeau, LE DEVOIR

 

FOREIGN GHOSTS is a trilogy of interrelated stories about three young immigrant women in Montreal.
Part 1 tells the story of May Li, a Chinese woman whose mother comes to live with her. Madame Li
believes that "foreigners", non-Chinese, are not real people but "foreign ghosts". After being rescued
in a snowstorm by a black man, she is forced to re-examine her traditional belief ... Part 2 recounts
the friendship between Anna, a Greek accountant, and Pepe, a womanizer who claims to be Spanish.
The truth however, is somewhat different ...

Part 3 is the story of three coffeeshop intellectuals turned rivals after being sexually challenged by Tanya, a waitress from the Dominican Republic. As the story unfolds, we discover that Tanya is a woman with a hidden agenda and a troubled past that is as cold and threatening as the Canadian winter. The friends bury their ethnic and political differences to help her and perhaps themselves ... FOREIGN GHOSTS exposes the pride, fear, desire and the absolute cultural confusion of new and
old immigrants.

Gallery
 
 

DOMINO FILM PRESENTS "FOREIGN GHOSTS" STARRING BONNIE MAK, EVYENIA, CAMILLE MARTINEZ, CARLO ALACCHI, ROBERT VAN DER LINDEN, WAEI PAI AND WALTER BRYANT MUSIC BY JANET LUMB ART DIRECTION BY XAVIER GEORGES AND SYLVIE KRASKER FINN CINEMATOGRAPHY BY DANIEL VILLENEUVE EDITED BY HUNT HOE, KATE KUNG AND PETER PONS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER CONSTANCE COOK WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY HUNT HOE

Another critically acclaimed film from
DOMINO'S CANADIAN COLLECTION

French version