“Just be audacious and do it... Courage in painting isn’t facing the blank canvas, it’s facing Manet, it’s facing Velasquez. All we can do is move beyond what was there, to what is here, and hope to get some intimation of what will be here.”
Rouge | John Logan
“We can’t go on gathering stuff. We have to save life. It’s dying.”
Un sofa dans le jardin | Collective
Welcome to “our” CHSLD!
CHSLD (Centre d'humbles survivants légèrement détraqués) | Collective
“Up there, people don’t mince words. They accuse us, insult us, mock us… your father is a desperate, broken man. But I can face them all. And stand tall.”
Les mains d’Edwige au moment de la naissance | Wajdi Mouawad
“We spent months – I spent months working on the governor’s speeches. Every word. Every breath. Every pause.”
Les marches du pouvoir | Beau Willimon
“This city makes you want to believe in something. Want to become something else. A good person… Just a good person. You want to be reborn…”
Regards-9, « Ave Maria » | Koffi Kwahulé
“I’m a woman of the Americas
Mixed-race, like the history of this continent, this world
Swaddled by the Caribbean Sea
Stigmatized for my skin colour
With the American dream tickling my toes
Not a big-screen TV but
Another Far West, a New World of possibility and equal opportunity.”Ici | Collective
“And I’d like to say that this cause is morally unacceptable.”
Bienveillance | Fanny Britt
“I’ve got a present for you. To celebrate your arrival in America.”
Une bête sur la lune | Richard Kalinoski
“You don’t just leave like that, without a good reason.”
Hope Town | Pascale Renaud-Hébert
“They’re the reason we work. That’s what the ministry’s mission is all about. You can’t forget. It’s the heart of what we do: being close to people, normal people, the ones who get forgotten.”
Lentement la beauté | Collective
“I agree. In love you need confidence. And elegance.”
La réunification des deux Corées | Joël Pommerat
“I think we have free determination. To make our own choices. To act and think freely.”
Christine, la reine-garçon | Michel Marc Bouchard
“And your can turn your B-movie existence into an Oscar-winning story.”
Matéo et la suite du monde | Jean-François F. Lessard
“If you still need a soldier to send to the front, you’ve got me.”
Les muses orphelines | Michel Marc Bouchard
“I don’t know what I’d do, when I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, if you weren’t there to take my hand.”
Sauver des vies | Pascale Renaud-Hébert
“You’re the best, man. Don’t ever forget it. It’s not the liquor talking, or the junk. It’s me talking.”
Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh
“But if you think about everything it’s been through – fire, exile, storms, bugs – you can see that this dress is a miracle!”
La robe de Gulnara | Isabelle Hubert
“The fear... but also hope. The pain... but also the healing. Faith. Because I know... I KNOW... that at the end of the tunnel... springtime will come.”
Lucky Lady | Jean-Marc Dalpé
