French
100 minutes
In Preproduction
Québec, 1960s. Agathe is an asthmatic child with an active imagination. The train whistle she hears at night while in bed feeds her fantasy of a mysterious parallel world. She lives in the suburbs with Thérèse, her mother, a melancholic artist who works as a clerk in a fabric store with her friend Maurice, a gender-fluid man. One evening, the teenager Agathe sneaks into the bar where Maurice-Barbara sings for the bohemians of the local underground. There she meets Frank, a young writer, who will enrich her life and open up amazing perspectives for a different future. This magical realist film evokes temporal theories of quantum physics and the figure of the shapeshifter—a being who can metamorphose and live in another form—found in the legends of many peoples around the world.
Team
Scriptwriter and Director
Marie Brassard
Cinematography
Mathieu Laverdière
Production Design
Antonin Sorel
Sound Design
Olivier Calvert
Executive Producer
Pierre Even
Line Producer
François Reid
Producer
Catherine Chagnon
Financing
SODEC, Telefilm Canada
Market
Rencontres de coproduction francophone 2022, The Banff World Media Festival, 2019 Diversity of Voices Initiative
Distribution (Canada)
Axia Films
Marie Brassard