An anachronistic firefighter, a quotidian poet, and an expert soup-maker, Ducarmel also plays in a competitive basketball league. There’s only one problem with his hobbies: finding a babysitter to look after his daughter. Moreover, when he dozes off in the evening, he dreams… a little too forcefully. In his bizarre dream world, a beguiling blue book reigns, love looms, and he is the best basketball player of all time.
Fiction bleeds into reality. Women declare themselves pregnant with the letter E! Denzel Washington plays himself in a popular sitcom. Chaos reigns and cops crave poetry. Mélusine Catafor abandons her identity in the city of Three-Rivers to seek a new one in Montreal where she hopes to learn English and where her best friend, Marie-Cobra Tremblay strives to birth an Odyssey. Rosaire, a melancholic pastor, organizes a major conference on Impossible Loves. Also, you'll meet La Renarde who hides a hole-punch in her coat. You'll learn the hole-punch is a formidable weapon used to pierce the ears of alley cats. As you can imagine, it's a comedy.
Waiting for April is a romantic, epic cop comedy freely inspired by songs and medieval fables collected by storyteller Michel Faubert. Detective Haffigan investigates a mysterious singing bone, a talisman endowed with dangerous powers, and chased after by a coterie of second-rate outlaws. The bone turns out to be in possession of Mithridate, a seductive actor with a gorilla’s right arm. Haffigan expresses romantic interest in the charming comedian, but he rebuffs her, instead setting his sights on Eleonore, a cashier at the Bank of Permanent Fog, who promises to liberate him from the bone’s curse.
That winter in Montréal, there is a girl. Three captains are wooing her. Cinema killed Jean-Baptiste Lamirande, the disastrous Liberator, who comes back to life just before Christmas. Héloïse, an amnesiac actress who lost her watch, has been reported missing.
Johanna Nutter started her acting career at a very young age, appearing in her father's film, Loose Associations. She received training from Warren Robertson, a renowned acting teacher, and has since been involved in various film and theatre productions. Notably, she played the roles of Sarah Schorr in Trying and Eunice Kennedy in Jackie Kennedy: A Life. Johanna has been praised as one of Montreal's finest actors by theatre critic Pat Donnelly. Recently, she portrayed Margie Walsh in the Canadian premiere of Good People, receiving great acclaim. In addition to her acting career, Johanna is the founder and artistic director of Freestanding Productions. She also serves as the acting president and concierge of the Freestanding Room, a studio space in Montreal that supports emerging artists. Johanna's first play, My Pregnant Brother, has garnered multiple awards and continues to tour across North America and Europe in both English and French. A film adaptation of her story is currently in progress.
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