Andrée Pelletier
Acting
Biography
Andrée Pelletier (born August 24, 1951) is a Canadian actress, screenwriter and film director. As an actress, she is a five-time Canadian Film Award and Genie Award nominee, receiving nominations for Best Actress at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for her performance as Marie-Anne Gaboury in the film Marie-Anne, at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981 for The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire), at the 4th Genie Awards in 1983 for Latitude 55° and at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for Walls, and a Best Supporting Actress nominee at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987 for Bach and Broccoli (Bach et Bottine). She later turned to screenwriting, including the films The Peanut Butter Solution, Nénette and Karmina, and directed the films Anchor Zone and Voodoo Dolls. Born in Montreal, Quebec, she is the daughter of Gérard Pelletier, a former journalist and diplomat.
Known For

In an ethereal, high-ceilinged room, women stand, waiting. Perhaps it's Purgatory and they're dead. In the room, two young women, one an actress and the other a psychologist, watch the last few days of their lives on a TV screen. Both are having affairs with married men, each has a long encounter with her lover's wife, and both these scenes take place in a ladies' room, one backstage at a play that's about to preview, the other at an opera house during the first act. The relationships between each pair of younger and older women take surprising turns, and in the room with the TV, a sylph asks probing and challenging questions of the two young women as they watch.
Ladies Room
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Harmonium

Jo, a talented young art student from Quebec, attracts the attention of a mysterious European art dealer who buys her drawings. When she later learns that the works are being sold as newly discovered drawings by Vincent van Gogh, she sets out to uncover the truth—traveling first to Amsterdam and ultimately to 19th-century Arles to confront the painter himself.
Vincent and Me

Gay hair stylist Robin Turner does a lot of work for drag queens, all the while dreaming that he'll someday find the courage to perform in drag himself. When his schizophrenic friend, Liza, turns up looking for a place to stay, the two form an increasingly tight bond, Robin helping Liza through an unplanned pregnancy and Liza pushing Robin to develop a successful nightclub act.
Outrageous!

Fleeing from some other children who want to beat him, Olivier meets the ghost of a Pirate who every hundred years tries to find a parchment. Olivier agrees to help him. But in doing so he is captured by a bunch of pirates. The other children of the village discover a door thru time and space in an old haunted house and decide to rescue Olivier from Captain Monbars' pirates.
Matusalem

Navigating the treacherous social tides of high school, Marine is cut adrift by Océane, her older sister who’s caught in the thrall of an older man. Meanwhile, their mother struggles to keep her head above water.
The Far Shore

Students at a girls' college are terrorized by spirits that haunt the institution. A haunted and disturbing horror about TV star Gina Phillips who goes to a private school and join a sorority in Montreal only to realize there is some voodoo and killer dolls in the basement.
Voodoo Dolls

Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit hairy.
The Peanut Butter Solution

A graduate of an elite training school is determined to discover the identity of her lost father. She begins a dangerous journey, meeting an array of characters as she discovers her past. Stars Henry Czerny, Michael Luke.
Anchor Zone

Group of prostitutes who rely on each other to revolt against their sinister pimps. Their bid for freedom turns much more dangerous than they ever imagined.
East End Hustle

Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
Born for Hell

A young girl is orphaned when her nurturing grandmother enters a nursing home. She is sent to live with her Bach-obsessed uncle, an organist preparing for an important recital.
Bach and Broccoli

A snowstorm in Northern Canada strands a woman from the Department of Culture, near a trappers cabin. The two gradually become acquainted within the confines of the cabin. The denouement is poignant.
Latitude 55°

Three friends — Paul, a conservative intellectual: Selena, a dancer who specialises in African dance: and Gabriel, an artist who manages to move with ease between the centres of their different worlds Paul maintains an ambiguous friendship with Gabriel, who goes through a series of homosexual affairs. For Selena, emotions become difficult to handle when she finds herself involved with both men. in the contradictory position of being in the centre and on the outside.
Justocoeur

Keiko is a 23-year-old lonely virgin who lives in a tiny room, and hopes to meet someone in the cafe she frequents. After a bad affair with one of the other diners, she vows to give up men. She then begins a happy lesbian relationship with her co-worker Kazuyo. However she is under constant pressure from her father to marry.
Keiko

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Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte

Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share their joys and sorrows. The first works in radio, the second in an airline company, and both have a married lover who, every Friday evening, rushes off to a home that has been forsaken for a while, saying: "Bye, see you Monday"...
Bye, See You Monday

Karmina, a young vampire, flees her Translylvanian castle where she must marry the horrible Vlad to please her father, the mean Baron, and her mother, the eccentric Baronness.
Karmina

a relentlessly nerve-wracking deadlock between three convicts and an emergency response team deployed to quell the rebellion.
Walls

A young married woman, after a kidnapping, becomes attached to an Indian.