Fair Sex

Fair Sex (French: Les Manèges humains) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Martin Laroche and released in 2012.[1]

Fair Sex
Film poster
FrenchLes Manèges humains
Directed byMartin Laroche
Written byMartin Laroche
Produced byMartin Laroche
StarringMarie-Évelyne Lessard
Marc-André Brunet
Normand Daoust
CinematographyFélix Tétrault
Edited byCatherine Legault
Music byThomas Hellman
Production
company
Productions Sisyphe
Distributed byK Films Amérique
Release date
Running time
98 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The film stars Marie-Évelyne Lessard as Sophie, a young immigrant woman who has just graduated from film school. While working on her first film project she meets and develops a romantic interest in Frédéric (Marc-André Brunet), which brings up her own unresolved emotional trauma around having been a childhood victim of female genital mutilation.[2] The cast also includes Normand Daoust, Stephanie Dawson, Alexandre Dubois and Michel Vézina.

The film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2012, and was screened at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival and the Whistler Film Festival later in the year, before going into commercial release in early 2013.[3]

Lessard won the Borsos Competition award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film at Whistler.[4] The film received four Jutra Award nominations at the 16th Jutra Awards, for Best Actress (Lessard), Best Supporting Actor (Daoust), Best Screenplay (Laroche) and Best Original Music (Thomas Hellman).[5]

References
  1. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Manèges humains, Les – Film de Martin Laroche". Films du Québec, January 31, 2013.
  2. Normand Provencher, "Les manèges humains: carrousel d'émotions". Le Soleil, July 1, 2012.
  3. "Les manèges humains à Montréal". La Presse, January 9, 2013.
  4. Craig Takeuchi, "Whistler Film Festival 2012: Quebec's Marie-Evelyne Lessard dove into Fair Sex". The Georgia Straight, December 3, 2012.
  5. Odile Tremblay, "Domination musclée de Louis Cyr aux nominations des Jutra". Le Devoir, January 28, 2014.
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