Waiting for Pascal

Waiting for Pascal

Directed by Guillaume Harvey, Marc-André Charpentier

Genre Fiction
Country Quebec
Year 2017
Length 15 min 14 s
Formats
Sound Stereo
Version Original French version, English subtitles

Synopsis

Montreal, 2028. Surrounded by drones and useless gadgets, four vain thirty-somethings get together for dinner. ''Creative'' work, daily anxieties and ''transients'' (miserable refugees living around town) are the order of the day while the four of them wait for one Pascal. Will he come?

Themes

family relationships, relationships, sexuality, consomation, immigration, technologies, poverty, richness, superficiality, future, global warming

Biography

A graduate of UQAM in filmmaking, Guillaume Harvey is fascinated by cinema’s diverse array of narrative possibilities. In 2015, he directed the short A Bomb, which was seen and enjoyed in festivals around the world. An eclectic designer and screenwriter, Marc-André Charpentier likes to look at society’s problems from a distanced point of view. Working together, they write and direct broad satires taking aim at our culture’s faults and absurdities.

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Cast

Mathieu Handfield, Marilou Morin, Simon Landry-Désy, Marie-Claude Guérin, Isabel Dos Santos, Jean-François C. Pronovost, Louka Amadeo Bélanger-Léos, Léo Meunier

Team

Production

Guillaume Harvey
Script

Guillaume Harvey, Marc-André Charpentier
CINEMATOGRAPHY

Natan B. Foisy
PRODUCTION DESIGN

Audrey Ejdelman
EDITING Valérie Tremblay
Sound Philippe Lefebvre
Music Anaïs Larocque
Other

Drones (voice) : Yves Corbeil

Festivals

SPASM, Montréal | 2017 | Official Competition
Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival, USA | 2017 | Official Competition
Pragues Int. Short Film Festival | 2018 | Official Competition
Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois, Québec | 2018 | Official Competition
Festival de Cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke | 2018 | Official Competition