Montreal Stories

Montreal Stories (French: Montréal vu par...), also titled Montreal Sextet in some releases, is a Canadian drama film, released in 1991 as an homage to the city of Montreal, Quebec on the occasion of its 350th anniversary. Written and directed by Denys Arcand, Michel Brault, Atom Egoyan, Jacques Leduc, Léa Pool and Patricia Rozema, the film is an anthology of six short films, one by each of the credited directors.

Montreal Stories
French	Montréal vu par...
Directed by	Denys Arcand Michel Brault Atom Egoyan Jacques Leduc Léa Pool Patricia Rozema
Written by	Paule Baillargeon Denys Arcand Michel Brault Atom Egoyan Jacques Leduc Léa Pool Patricia Rozema
Produced by	Doris Girard Michel Houle Yves Rivard Denise Robert Peter Sussman
Cinematography	Francois Aubry Éric Cayla Paul Sarossy
Edited by	Susan Shipton Dominique Fortin
Music by	Jean Corriveau Michel F. Côté Mychael Danna Diane Labrosse Yves Laferrière Osvaldo Montes
Production companies	Atlantis Films Cinémaginaire National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1991 (1991)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	Canada

Cast

Actors appearing in the films include Denys Arcand, Philippe Ayoub, Paule Baillargeon, Michel Barrette, Claude Blanchard, Domini Blythe, Geneviève Brouillette, Maury Chaykin, Anne Dorval, Rémy Girard, Élise Guilbault, Yves Jacques, Arsinée Khanjian, Alexandrine Latendresse, Charlotte Laurier, Véronique Le Flaguais, Robert Lepage, Maria del Mar, Sheila McCarthy, Monique Mercure, Jean-Louis Millette, Guylaine St-Onge, Raoul Trujillo, Suzanne Champagne, John Gilbert and Guillermo Verdecchia.

Segments

• "Desperanto" (Rozema) — A young housewife from Toronto (Sheila McCarthy) explores Montreal's nightlife.
• "La Toile du temps" (Leduc) — The history of a painting of former Montreal mayor Jacques Viger.
• "La Dernière partie" (Brault) — Madeleine (Hélène Loiselle) tries to tell Roger (Jean Mathieu) she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage.
• "En passant" (Egoyan) — A visitor to a conference arrives at the airport.
• "Rispondetemi" (Pool) — En route to the hospital in an ambulance after a car accident, Sarah (Anne Dorval) recalls her life.
• "Vue d'ailleurs" (Arcand) — At a diplomatic reception, an older woman (Domini Blythe) reminisces about a love affair in Montreal in 1967.

See also

• The Memories of Angels, a collage film about Montreal
• Cosmos, a 1996 film which assigned the same premise to six young emerging directors

External links

• Montreal Stories at IMDb
• Montreal Stories at Rotten Tomatoes
• Images from the film at the National Film Board of Canada