Feature drama, colour 35mm
Available in the original English
and French version

 

 


YELLOWKNIFE

A film by Rodrigue Jean
116 minutes, 2002
Starring Sébastien Huberdeau, Hélène Florent
An Ian Boyd & Phyllis Laing production

".....éblouissement du sombre. Découverte d'une écriture qui ose....".
ICI, Le Carnet de Robert Lévesque

"..comme des diables dans l'eau bénite.."
Paul Villeneuve, JOURNAL DE MONTRÉAL

"C'est un film sur le vide intérieur, sur la dépossession, la colonisation des âmes..."
Rodrigue Jean en entrevue, VOIR

 

Burnt out and restless, Max (Sébastien Huberdeau) and Linda (Hélène Florent) flee Acadia and head toward the Great Canadian Northwest. On the road to Yellowknife, they encounter twin strippers (Brad and Todd Mann), a faded nightclub singer (Patsy Gallant), and her manager (Philippe Clément). Thrown together by circumstance, these rootless souls form a tapestry of relationships that pushes them to the edge.

A "road film" that explores Canadian highways as well as the back alleys of the mind, YELLOWKNIFE expands on themes established in FULL BLAST, Rodrique Jean's previous feature film. Alienation, marginality, and raw sexuality permeate this moody and highly personal work. Trapped in the ruts of despair, the characters of YELLOWKNIFE are driven to an endless series of places and to ever more disastrous choices.

Gallery
 
 

DOMINO FILM PRESENTS YELLOWKNIFE A FILM BY RODRIGUE JEAN STARRING SÉBASTIEN HUBERDEAU, HÉLÈNE FLORENT, PATSY GALLANT, PHILIPPE CLÉMENT, BRAD MANN, TODD MANN AND GLEN GOULD A CO-PRODUCTION LES FILMS DE L'ISLE , TRANSMAR FILMS AND BUFFALO GAL PICTURES DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY YVES CAPE, A.F.C. PRODUCTION DESIGN GABRIEL TSAMPALIEROS COSTUME DESIGN CAROLINE POIRIER FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR NORMAND BOURGIE PRODUCTION MANAGER GILLES LEGARÉ EDITOR MATHIEU BOUCHARD-MALO SOUND GILLES CORBEIL, CLAUDE BEAUGRAND AND HANS PETER STROBL MUSIC ROBERT MARCEL LEPAGE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS IAN BOYD AND RODRIGUE JEAN ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOCELYNE THÉRIAULT CO-PRODUCER SHAWN WATSON PRODUCERS IAN BOYD AND PHYLLIS LAING WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY RODRIGUE JEAN

Another critically acclaimed film from
DOMINO'S CANADIAN COLLECTION

French version