Presented as the closing film at the 54th edition of the Festival Nouveau Cinéma in Montréal, The Train plunges us into 1960s Quebec. Agathe, an asthmatic child with a vivid imagination, is growing up in an isolated suburb, lulled by the sounds of a nighttime train that awaken in her the idea of an elusive elsewhere. Her mother Thérèse (Larissa Corriveau), a secretary by day and an artist by night, weaves a tender and offbeat life for Agathe with her friend Maurice, a flamboyant fashion designer. As a teenager, Agathe meets Frank (Lennikim), a young writer whose dreams of a Japanese heroine strangely resonate with her.
From behind the camera, the great Marie Brassard crafts a mystical, fascinating, and aesthetically refined tale, in which past and future, dream and reality intertwine. Infused with mythological legends and magical realism, this coming-of-age story is also a quest for identity that sensitively explores the mysteries of space and time.
Produced by Catherine Chagnon, The Train is a Microclimat Films Production. Distributed in Canada by Axia Films, the film will be theatrically released in Quebec on October 24.