With close to 30 films of all genres on his résumé, you could say Jean-Pierre Lefebvre is a prolific filmmaker. After he discovered his calling while working as a film critic, it didn’t take him long to move behind the camera to make his critically acclaimed first feature, Le révolutionnaire (1965). The fiercely independent Lefebvre quickly set up his own production companies to give himself...
Thirty years later, the filmmaker completes his trilogy and continues his exploration of our ever-changing society. The final part of his trilogy featuring the character of Abel (still played by the ineffable...
Feature film
CANADA | 106 minutes | 1998
A day in the life of Abel or a look at a disillusioned man tormented by the death of a loved one. In this, his second feature, the filmmaker was already unleashing his vivid imagination through a central...
Feature film , Fiction
CANADA | 75 minutes | 1967
The motherland revisited by a quietly ironic Quebecker with the soul of a poet. Like the travelogue of a trip to an ancestral land, this second act in the trilogy featuring the Abel character examines the...
FRANCE | 114 minutes | 1977
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