Dream Life (French: La Vie rêvée) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Mireille Dansereau and released in 1972.[1] The first narrative fiction feature film from Quebec to be directed by a woman,[2] the film stars Liliane Lemaître-Auger and Véronique Le Flaguais as Isabelle and Virginie, colleagues at a film production company in Montreal, who dream of finding the perfect man but come to realize that reality doesn't live up to their fantasies.[3] It was the first privately produced feature film in Canada to be directed by a woman.[4]

Dream Life
FrenchLa Vie rêvée
Directed byMireille Dansereau
Written byMireille Dansereau
Patrick Auzépy
Produced byGuy Bergeron
StarringLiliane Lemaître-Auger
Véronique Le Flaguais
CinematographyLouis de Ernsted
François Gill
Richard Rodrigue
Edited byDanielle Gagné
Music byEmmanuel Charpentier
Production
company
Release date
  • July 22, 1972 (1972-07-22)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The film won two Canadian Film Awards at the 24th Canadian Film Awards in 1972, for Best Editing (Danielle Gagné) and the Wendy Michener Award.[5]

It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films from throughout the history of Canadian cinema.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Wyndham Wise, "La Vie rêvée". The Canadian Encyclopedia, June 3, 2009.
  2. ^ "Canada On Screen". Vancouver Sun, June 29, 2017.
  3. ^ Olivier Lamothe, "Vie rêvée, La (1972)". Panorama Cinéma, March 25, 2013.
  4. ^ Marshall 2001, p. 220.
  5. ^ Martin Knelman, "Wedding in White wins Etrog". The Globe and Mail, October 16, 1972.
  6. ^ Carole Corbeil, "The stars are coming out for Toronto's film festival". The Globe and Mail, September 6, 1984.

Works cited

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  • Marshall, Bill (2001). Quebec National Cinema. McGill–Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2103-8.
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