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The painter María Luisa Señoret paints a portrait of her filmmaker daughter, while the latter films the process and walks among the canvases hanging on the walls of her mother’s studio. These movements become a pretext for a journey back in time that unveils the many twists and turns of Señoret’s eventful life.
This documentary short is a portrait of Miyuki Tanobe, a Japanese painter who has chosen to make Québec her home. She works in the Nihonga style, applying centuries-old techniques to scenes drawn directly from the working-class neighborhoods of Montréal. The film records the progression of one of her paintings from preliminary sketch to completion.
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
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The filmmaker adapts "De mémoire incomplète", one of her own short stories, into a film that portrays the encounter of two people wounded by the past and by history, over the course of a day and a night on a street in Montreal. Past, present, imagination, and reality intertwine in the subjective vision of its protagonist, Ana María, as the Canadian city becomes a dreamlike landscape.
