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1969 Canadian film
My Friend Pierrette
FrenchMon amie Pierrette
Directed byJean Pierre Lefebvre
Written byJean-Pierre Lefebvre
Produced byClément Perron
StarringFrancine Mathieu
Yves Marchand
Raôul Duguay
CinematographyJacques Leduc
Edited byMarguerite Duparc
Production
company
National Film Board of Canada
Distributed byFaroun Films
Release date
  • July 20, 1969 (1969-07-20)
Running time69 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

My Friend Pierrette (French: Mon amie Pierrette) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1969. The film stars Yves Marchand and Francine Mathieu as Yves and Pierrette, a young couple who are spending their first vacation together at a family cottage when they meet Raoul (Raôul Duguay), an artist who comes between them.

The film opened theatrically in Quebec in July 1969, and was later screened in the Directors Fortnight program at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.

The film was included in Jean Pierre Lefebvre: Vidéaste, a retrospective program of Lefebvre's films at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.

References

  1. Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 150.
  2. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Mon amie Pierrette – Film de Jean Pierre Lefebvre". Films du Québec, March 15, 2009.
  3. Brendan Kelly, "Lefebvre homage captures Montreal master’s vision". Variety, September 3, 2001.

External links

Films directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Feature films
Short films
  • L'homoman (1964)
  • Ensemble (1988)
  • Sentiers secrets (1988)
  • Laubach Literacy of Canada: The Changing Workplace (1989)
  • Atelier altitude (1993)
  • Il était une fois Sabrina et Manu (1994)
  • L'âge des images (1994–1995)
  • H comme hasard (1999)
  • See You in Toronto (2000)


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