Year
2024
Length
1h50m
Language
French
The Last Meal
Maryse Legagneur
CREOLE GARDEN PARTY
Evening in collaboration with Les Nocturnes of Sutton School of Arts
Join us for a special evening spotlighting filmmaker Maryse Legagneur.
On the program: live music, Creole cuisine and screenings of two engaging and powerful films.
In presence of Maryse Legagneur and Rebecca Jean
6:30 pm: Doors open
7:00 pm: Film-inspired menu prepared by Shandmas and musical performance by Creole singer Rebecca Jean and two traditional Haitian drummers.
8:15 pm: Screening of Black Soul, a short film by Martine Chartrand
8:30 pm: Speeches and screening of Le dernier repas, feature film by Maryse Legagneur
SYNOPSIS
Reynold is dying from stomach cancer. Gradually unable to eat normally due to his condition, he resigns himself to starving to death. Grim memories surface of how he had cheated starvation once before as a prisoner in Fort-Dimanche Prison. The last meals that he can still eat provide an opportunity to share these memories with his daughter Vanessa, who he has not seen for 20 years.
Director
Maryse Legagneur
Screenwriter
Maryse Legagneur, LUIS MOLINIÉ
Director of photography
Mathieu Laverdière
Genre
Drama
Country
Canada
Type
Feature film
Category
Fiction
Subtitle
English
26 August 18:30 to 22:30
École d'art de Sutton
Maryse Legagneur
Maryse Legagneur started her career as a director when she became the winner of the tv series La Course Destination Monde. She rapidly directed and collaborated on programs such as: Bande à part (ARTV), Une pilule, une petite granule (Télé Québec), Gang de rue (Télé Québec) and les Voix humaines (ARTV) to name a few. In addition to her career as a director, she is an activist defending the minorities’ rights victim of racial discrimination through popular educational projects in Saint-Michel’s neighborhood. As a result of her observations in the field, she directed at the NFB her first documentary entitled Au nom de la mère et du fils, in which she tackled themes dear to her; the quest for freedom, social equity, cultural identity and the fight against young black men’s exclusion.
Since then, she dedicates herself in racial equity and the civic rights of racialized people in Quebec and in Americas. In 2018, she co-directed the documentary Entends ma voix (Pamplemousse Média Production inc.). This film allows the unlikely meeting between the artists of the controversial play SLAV from Robert Lepage and Betty Bonifassi and those who have been outraged. Hoping that their exchanges can lead to possible solutions, they wish that freedom of expression can one day go hand in hand with better representation of cultural communities.
Maryse Legagneur presently works on a documentary about positive subversity of the word bitch among Americas’ afrofeminist movement: « BITCH, un Word Movie » (BLACK ON BLACK FILM).