La Madone

Lise, a woman with a trou­bled psy­chi­atric his­to­ry, believes she is the rein­car­na­tion of the char­ac­ter in Edvard Munch’s paint­ing The Madon­na. A poet­ic and col­or­ful uni­verse of hal­lu­ci­na­tions, obses­sions, intense moments of emo­tion, and pro­found lucidity. 

SYNOPSIS

Lise, a woman with a troubled psychiatric history, believes she is the reincarnation of the central character in Munch's painting The Madonna, an obsession she has cultivated for over 30 years. Surprisingly, there are many similarities between her and the painter Edvard Munch, both in their relationship to physical and mental illness and in their mystical and morbid tendencies.
As time passes, the filmmakers, who are also caregivers, accompany Lise and capture her colorful and poetic world, in which beliefs and hallucinations coexist with obsessions, moments of intense emotion, and profound lucidity.
An intimate and poetic journey that will leave no one indifferent.

Theme(s) : , Mental health, Social

DIRECTOR

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Anne-Marie Turcotte

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After study­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion and visu­al arts, she focused on edit­ing, direct­ing, and screen­writ­ing. She has worked on numer­ous inde­pen­dent film projects and tele­vi­sion documentaries.

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Mario Calvé

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MARIO CALVÉ is a cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er, direc­tor, screen­writer, and pro­duc­er. He works in inde­pen­dent video pro­duc­tion and tele­vi­sion. In addi­tion to the pro­duc­tions of MAS Vidéo Film, he has worked and con­tin­ues to work as a direc­tor and cin­e­matog­ra­ph­er on numer­ous pro­duc­tions for oth­er companies.

CREDITS

Director | , Anne-Marie Turcotte, Mario Calvé
Year | , 2026
Country | , Canada
Duration | 76 minutes
Original language | , French
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Sound | Philippe Scultéty
Sound mixing | Bernard Grenon, Éric Ladouceur
Music | Benoit Rocheleau, Éric Bégin, Éric Desranleau, Jean-Sébastien Nicol, Sylvain Pohu
Editing | Anne-Marie Turcotte, Mario Calvé
Cinematographer | Mario Calvé
Lighting | Alain Lacroix, Dominic Léonard
Colorist | Alexis Mercier
Graphic creation | Jean-Charles Labarre, Sylvain Blondeau
Cast | Attoumani Bacar, Catherine Dagenais-Savard, Denis Zawadzki, Dominic Léonard, Jean Paray, Lise Calvé, Nicole Léonard, Sébastien Cossette-Masse
Other | Simon Page

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