A 26-minute gut punch about the daughter who dared to want the spotlight.
Today, Edith is tired of being the favorite spectator of her parents, famous but somewhat outdated singers. She wants to sing too. But just as she decides to take the plunge, familiar demons come to revive her and remind her that there is only one singer in the family. And that she was born after her...
Acting
Cadieux's silent devastation—watch her eyes, not her mouth.
Direction
Baillargeon traps us in Edith's suffocating domestic theatre.
Director
Paule Baillargeon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Télé-Action's 'La Course destination monde' shorts, this emerged from Quebec's 1990s explosion of women directors telling stories male cinema ignored.
The 'outdated singers' aren't named but evoke Quebec's 1960s-70s chansonniers—Edith's rebellion targets a specific nationalist artistic patriarchy.
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