Anne Trister
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Canada, 1986 (fiction, 102 minutes, colour, French)
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| Image: © National Film Board of Canada |
Film Description:
"Anne Trister, a young Swiss Jewish artist, is profoundly affected by the death of her father. After quitting school, she leaves Switzerland for Quebec to visit her friend Alix, a psychologist to whom she becomes attracted. Through her work, Alix has developed an emotional bond with Sarah, a rebellious child with an enormous need to be loved. Detached from the world around her, Anne takes over a vacant studio to paint a giant fresco and throws herself into a series of fleeting and impulsive affairs."
-- National Film Board of Canada
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| Film Credits (partial): |
| Written by: |
Léa Pool, Marcel Beaulieu |
| Produced by: |
Roger Frappier, Claude Bonin |
| Principal Cast: |
Albane Guilhe, Lucie Laurier, Louise Marleau, Nuvit Ozdogru, Hugues Quester, Guy Thauvette, Kim Yaroshevskaya |
| Cinematography: |
Pierre Mignot |
| Film Editing: |
Michel Arcand |
| Music: |
René Dupéré |
| Production Company: |
Office national du film du Canada / National Film Board of Canada, Les Films Vision 4 Inc. |
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Awards won by Anne Trister
- Genie Award: Best Achievement in Cinematography -- awarded to Pierre Mignot
- Genie Award: Best Original Song -- awarded to Danielle Messia
Notes about Anne Trister
- Filmed in Montreal, Lausanne, Geneva, and Tel Aviv.
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Quote by the Director [in French]
"Ça ne me gêne pas d'affirmer que l'autobiographie a été une constante dans mon oeuvre, pour la bonne raison que le résultat est plus complexe qu'on le pense. Ainsi, un personnage comme Anne Trister, en principe, me représente. Pourtant, les éléments de ma vie se confondent en elle avec des éléments du vécu de cinq ou six autres personnes qui ont marqué mon existence. De plus, elle incarne une période de mon passé à laquelle je ne m'identifie plus aujourd'hui, tandis que le personnage qui lui donne la réplique, Alix, me semble une transposition plus proche de ce que je suis inconsciemment."
-- Léa Pool
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Quotes about Anne Trister
"The film [Anne Trister] is obsessed with the construction and repetition of images of personal and cultural memory, which form an aesthetics of trauma."
-- Jean Bruce
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"Slow and reflective, Anne Trister is a drama of delicate sensibilities and refinement. We are taken on a journey—conducted at a stately pace—through Anne's emotional development as she progresses from grieving daughter to recovered adult woman."
-- Alison Darren
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"The film [Anne Trister] is fictional, but it has many elements common to the life of Léa Pool, who, like her heroine, was born in Switzerland of Jewish origin and who moved to Canada. [...] Pool's background made her question her identity. Her father was a stateless Jew in Switzerland, a country with only about 20,000 Jews in a population of about seven million."
-- Tony Simons
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"[Anne Trister] goes beyond the conventional girl-meets-girl scenario in a number of ways. Pool attempts to symbolize the relation between the two women through a particular use of space, mise-en-scène and metaphor, at the same time exploring the connections between this romance and the original love for mother."
-- Lizzie Thynne
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Quote about Anne Trister [in French]
"Comme pour retrouver la magie du cinématographe des premiers temps, le film Anne Trister s'ouvre et se ferme sur les images d'un désert. Ouverture et fermeture à l'iris en somme, qui nous fait pénétrer au coeur même de la vie d'Anne, comme les spectateurs de jadis entraient dans le monde des images animées. Cette tournure stylistique ne serait pourtant qu'un début et une fin donnant au film sa forme de cercle parfait, se résolvant précisément là où il a commencé, si Léa Pool n'avait su habilement filer la métaphore, telle un fil d'Ariane qui nous guide, à travers les méandres du comportement des personnages."
-- Roger Bourdeau
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Bibliography for Anne Trister
Book Chapters
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Bourdeau, Roger. "1986 : la belle exigence des réalisatrices canadiennes et québécoises : Anne Trister."
In Films de femmes : six générations de réalisatrices, edited by Jackie Buet and Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne, 51-52. Paris: Alternatives, 1999.
[in French]
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Pallister, Janis L. "Léa
Pool's Gynefilms."
In Essays on Quebec Cinema, edited by Joseph I. Donohoe. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1991.
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Simons, Tony. "Léa Pool: Anne Trister."
In Where Are the Voices Coming From?: Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History, edited by Coral Ann Howells, 231-245. Cross/Cultures 73. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.
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Thynne, Lizzie. "The Space Between: Daughters and Lovers in Anne Trister."
In Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image, edited by Tamsin Wilton, 131-142. London: Routledge, 1995.
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Vaillancourt, Julie. "La femme de l'hôtel et Anne Trister : silences éloquentes, désirs saphiques et revendication d'un nouvel espace."
In Cinematic Queerness: Gay and Lesbian Hypervisibility in Contemporary Francophone Feature Films, edited by Florian Grandena and Cristina Johnston, 117-133. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011.
[English / French]
Brief Sections of Books
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Darren, Alison. Lesbian Film Guide. New York: Cassell, 2000.
(pp. 11-12)
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Pallister, Janis L. "Women's Cinema."
In The Cinema of Quebec: Masters in Their Own House. London: Associated University Presses, 1995.
(pp. 128-126)
Journal Articles
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Bruce, Jean. "Feminine Identity and Theories of the Intra/Inter National Subject: La Vie rêvée and Anne Trister." Nouvelles Vues, no. 2 (Summer-Autumn 2004).
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Lahaie, Christiane. "Visions en mouvement de la condition féminine : trois ouvres de femmes cinéastes." Recherches féministes 5, no. 1 (1992): 83-96.
[in French]
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Ménard, Julie. "Le cinéma lesbien : l'émergence d'une prise de parole." Québec français, no. 124 (Winter 2001-2002): 43-45.
[in French]
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Pérusse, Denise . "'Anne Trister' : variation sur le même thème." Québec français, no. 62 (May 1986): 19-20.
[in French]
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Alemany-Galway, Mary. "Anne Trister." Review of Anne Trister. Cinema Canada, April 1986.
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Bonneville, Léo. "Anne Trister." Review of Anne Trister. Séquences, April 1986.
[in French]
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Castiel, Élie. "Anne Trister : Moments de la vie d'une femme." Review of Anne Trister. 24 Images, Spring 1986.
[in French]
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Cazals, T. "Faux-fuyants." Review of Anne Trister. Les Cahiers du cinéma, July-August 1986.
[in French]
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Variety. "Anne
Trister." Review of Anne Trister. Variety, February 26, 1986.
Dissertation Chapters
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Ménard, Julie. "Analyse de contenu du film Anne Trister."
In "La représentation de la réalité lesbienne au cinéma à partir d'un univers symbolique subjectif," 54-67. M.A. diss., Université de Sherbrooke, 2002.
[in French]
Web Sites about Anne Trister
