Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.
Acting
Gourmet and Ahmarani's fragile, unspoken bond.
Direction
Falardeau's delicate balance of absurdity and ache.
Writing
Inventions as metaphors that actually work.
Director
Philippe Falardeau
Paul Ahmarani
Louis Legros
Olivier Gourmet
Michel Roy
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Hervé Roy
Claudia Tagbo
Alice Roy
Lorraine Pintal
Lucie
Gabriel Arcand
Priest
Janine Sutto
Sister Lafrance
Marie Brassard
Madeleine Longsdale
Henri Chassé
Energy Minister
Jules Philip
Man in Alcove
Mireille Bailly
Lawyer
Carlo Ferrante
TV Host
Jean-Luc Couchard
Journalist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's title refers to a 1958 World's Fair pavilion, symbolizing Belgium's colonial nostalgia and Michel's own displaced origins.
Falardeau made this between his documentary work and 'Monsieur Lazhar,' cementing his reputation for finding humanity in bureaucratic absurdity.
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