Its taken him a long time to get attention south of the border i had to travel to the toronto film festival to see his first film, drifting states. Guillaume becomes their champion, their life witness. His initial bythebook questioning of vic and interrogation of flo has an underlying empathy which becomes stronger as the film progresses. Leading ladies robitaille and bohringer weave a tale of love, connection, reintegration, and separation with the four walls of a quebec sugar shack. She moves into a relatives house in the canadian forest and receives a visit from her lover, flo. Victoria just got out on parole, tasting freedom for the first time in years. Its a crime and drama movie with a very high rotten tomatoes critics score of 91% and an. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as vic s probation office keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the. The film tells the story of the title characters, victoria pierrette robitaille and florence romane bohringer, a lesbian couple who reunite after the former is paroled from life imprisonment the crime she committed is never. If theres a lowkey disappointment to vic and flo, its that the film teases the mind and. Two lesbian excons, victoria and florence, are trying to make a new life in the backwoods of quebec. He makes foreignlanguage films, working in his native tongue of french, yet hes not european therein lacking all the. They hole up in a sugar shack out in the woods, relearning life on the outside. Florence has done her time, and reconnects with her lover from prison.
Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as vic s probation office keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the neighborhood soon turns out to be an increasingly menacing shadow from flo s past. Winner of the alfred bauer prize at the berlin international film festival, the new film by internationally celebrated canadian auteur denis cote bestiaire, carcasses is one of the years most. Vic and flo saw a bear constitutes a step forward, the next stride in the artists maturation on numerous levels. Rent vic and flo saw a bear 20 starring pierrette robitaille and romane bohringer on dvd and bluray. The film premiered in competition at the 63rd berlin international film festival. Victoria and florence, lesbian excons, try to start a new life in the backwoods of quebec. However, anything this outthere is bound to find at least a small coterie of. There are currently thirteen videos available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Lean, bald and bearded, he looks nothing like a symbol of authority. The film is hard to place into one particular category, luring you into a false sense of security before key events change the entire tone. The biggest surprise here, though, is grondin, who may have the film s biggest arc as guillaume, a man flo proclaims cute but also correctly pegs as gay. His latest film, vic and flo saw a bear, is like walking along a wending path through a dark, mysterious forest. The film premiered in competition at the 63rd berlin international film festival, where it won the alfred bauer prize the film stars romane bohringer and pierrette robitaille as vic and flo, lesbian lovers and former convicts who settle in the countryside of quebec after vic.
This dryly humorous opening sets the tone for rest of the film which tells the story of vic, a woman who has just been released from prison and who is on the hunt for some peace and quiet. Seeking peace and quiet, the couple slowly begin to feel under siege as vics probation office keeps unexpectedly popping up and a strange woman in the neighborhood soon turns out to be an increasingly menacing shadow from flos past. Get acquainted with an unsung maverick of world cinema film. Michael mackenzie into a play titled vic and flo saw a bear at small venue. Under the supervision of guillaume, a young, sympathetic parole officer, she tries to get her life back on track along with florence, her former cellmate with whom she shared years of intimacy in prison. Victoria, an exconvict in her sixties, wants to start new life in a remote sugar shack. The new feature by quebecois auteur denis cote director of. Best netflix series ranked 200 fresh free movies online binge central. Vic and flo saw a bear is a 20 canadian drama film directed by denis cote. Freshen up your watchlist with prime videos latest roster of streaming movies and. February 7, 2014 winner of the 20 silver bear berlin international film festival. He seemed to have a breakthrough of sorts in the u.