Renée Girard

Renée Girard

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Title: La semaine des 4 Julie
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 2020
Type: TV
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Cruising Bar 2
Title: Cruising Bar 2
Character: Woman with chihuahua
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Fifteen years later, the heroes from Cruising Bar may hardly have changed but the world around them most certainly has! For the Bull, reality is brutal. His wife of 30 years, sick of his infidelity, decides to show him the door. But the Bull, who has a positive outlook on life, isn't so easily defeated and fights for his survival. The Lion too faces a break-up when his girlfriend leaves. All alone, he's force to relearn the art of seduction. The Peacock, on the other hand, is trying to figure out his sexual identity with the help of a psychologist. As for the Earthworm, his long wait for a soulmate will, at last, be requited.
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How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
Title: How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
Character: Dame de la librairie
Released: February 24, 1989
Type: Movie
A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy amateur philosopher who quotes the Koran. Man's habit of picking up young white women makes many young white men jealous...
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Shades of Love: Echoes in Crimson
Title: Shades of Love: Echoes in Crimson
Character: Athena
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Anne, an art historian, takes a job in a prestigious big-city gallery. Soon Grant, a former lover, turns up and tries to win her back. But Anne still harbors a strong distrust of him and decides to devote herself totally to her work. At the gallery, she manages to uncover the mystery behind a murder and a smuggling plot by her boss. Grant appears in the nick of time to save her from harm's way. He also becomes her latest find and a celebrated new artist. At a showing of his work at the gallery, Grant surprises Anne with his latest work...a neon sculpture of Grouch Marx saying "I Love You". Anne gets the love she lost so many years ago and a new career as gallery manager. Stars Greg Evigan and Patty Talbot. Directed by Caryl J. Wickman.
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Hold-up
Title: Hold-up
Character: Nurse
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
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Maria Chapdelaine
Title: Maria Chapdelaine
Character: Tante Bouchard
Released: April 27, 1983
Type: Movie
A young woman, living with her parents and siblings on a remote farm in harsh, picturesque northern Québec, has three suitors: a steady and unimaginative farmer, Eutrope, the Americanized and wealthy Lorenzo, who has sought his fortune in Boston, and François Paradis, a rough and virile logger who captures her heart despite the warnings of her parents and the village priest. For a year, marked by seasonal change in an atmosphere charged with the strangeness of Indians and the demons of the woods, we see Maria at work and prayer, struggling with decisions, choosing to stay in Canada, in love with François, seeking to change his rough behaviors, and dealing with extraordinary loss.
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Suzanne
Title: Suzanne
Character: Nun
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
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Les grands enfants
Title: Les grands enfants
Released: April 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Les Grands Enfants does not tell a story in the traditional sense. Instead, it offers an honest image of people's dreams of change : people often unemployed, dissatisfied in some way with their work, or caught up in complicated social relationships. The film is set in Montreal.
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Bye, See You Monday
Title: Bye, See You Monday
Character: Madame Leblanc, Lucie's mother
Released: August 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Lucie the Quebecker and Nicole the Frenchwoman with the "funny accent" are both twenty-six, single and share their Montreal apartment as they share their joys and sorrows. The first works in radio, the second in an airline company, and both have a married lover who, every Friday evening, rushes off to a home that has been forsaken for a while, saying: "Bye, see you Monday"...
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L'âge de la machine
Title: L'âge de la machine
Released: February 19, 1978
Type: Movie
A young police officer goes through Abitibi to take a train with a young convict who escaped from her orphanage.
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The Uncanny
Title: The Uncanny
Character: Mrs. Maitland (segment "Quebec Province 1975")
Released: August 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
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Cathy's Curse
Title: Cathy's Curse
Character: Mrs. Burton
Released: July 29, 1977
Type: Movie
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.
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Normande
Title: Normande
Character: Berthe St-Onge
Released: October 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Normande St-Onge works as a clerk in a pharmacy and takes dance classes with the dream of being a cabaret dancer. Her mother, Berthe, has been confined to a mental institution by Normande's uncle, the wealthy lawyer Jean-Paul. But Normande, who does not believe her mother is insane, kidnaps her from the institution and brings her home. Also living with them is Normande's sister Pierette, who has asthma and a drug addiction, Normande's boyfriend Bouliane, who is unemployed and in no hurry to find a job, and a strange young magician named Carol she took in after he was kicked out of his home. All of these people depend on Normande in various ways and exploit her; Normande, desperate to be loved, is driven mad by the demands of her parasite family. When she receives an eviction notice stating that the building will be demolished and rebuilt into a restaurant, it all becomes too much for Normande and her mind retreats into fantasy to protect her from the harsh realities.