Marcel sort de prison après avoir purgé une peine pour trafic de drogue. Il reprend contact avec son père Albert, cardiaque et abandonné par sa femme. Alors qu’il est poursuivi par deux policiers véreux en quête du magot qu’il avait caché, Marcel utilise cet argent pour adoucir les vieux jours de son père : il réalise son rêve en lui organisant une dernière chasse à l’orignal. Il l’emmène alors au zoo où il pense lui en trouver un…

It is hard to imagine a more auspicious debut for a director. Un zoo la nuit won a record 13 Genies including Best Picture. Jean-Claude Lauzon won both Director and Screenwriter honours. Un zoo la nuit, or Night Zoo as it was retitled in English, is a journey into the jungle of Montréal's underworld. The human zoo with it's captive wild life. The nights that never end. The city as lonely and untamed as any wilderness. . . and twice as threatening. Marcel is released from prison only to find his father dying, his girl-friend on the skids, and the crooked cops that put him in jail coming back for more. Slowly at first, but then with the desperation of a man gasping for air, Marcel attempts to sever his ties with the underworld once and for all. And begin a tender, sometimes painful reconciliation with his father--the father he never really knew. A visually stunning and somewhat pretentious film, even for a debut effort, some critics wrote at the time of its release that was ultimately too cliched and marred by its own moral ambivalence. However, to win 13 Genies must mean something and the film remains highly watchable. Look for director Denys Arcand as a customer in a sex-shop. He would also appear in Lauzon's only other feature, Léolo.

Auditorium Jules-Verne

5445 Baillie Street, Vancouver

Jeu. 11 mars/Thurs.March 11, 2010

9:30 pm : Un zoo la nuit

(Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canada, 1987, 1h55, with English subtitles) avec Gilles Maheu, Roger Lebel, Lorne Brass, Germain Houde, Jerry Snell, Corrado Mastropasqua, Lynne Adams, Anna-Marie Giannotti, Nereo Lorenzi, Nicolas Clarizio, Amulette Garneau, Luc Proulx, Jean-Pierre Saulnier, Jean Pierre Bergeron, Vincent Ierfino, Denys Arcand, Walter Massey, Jacques Pelletier.

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