The Moving Statue
FrenchLa liberté d'une statue
Directed byOlivier Asselin
Written byOlivier Asselin
Produced byMartin Paul-Hus
StarringLucille Fluet
Ronald Houle
CinematographyOlivier Asselin
Edited byOlivier Asselin
Claude Palardy
Production
company
Amérique Film
Release date
  • September 1990 (1990-09) (TIFF)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Moving Statue (French: La liberté d'une statue) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Olivier Asselin and released in 1990.[1] An experimental black-and-white film inspired by the silent film era,[2] the film is presented as an old Egyptian silent film that has just recently been rediscovered, and is being translated to the viewing audience by means of a deaf lip reader whose sign language is in turn translated by the narrator; the silent film itself depicts the story of a young woman (Lucille Fluet) wandering in the desert, who attracts unwanted attention after she miraculously resurrects a man (Ronald Houle) who had been turned to stone.[1]

The film's cast includes Serge Christiaenssens, Roch Aubert, Pierre-Charles Milette, Guy Provencher, Geneviève Asselin, André Myron, François Roberge, Alexandre Daniel, Linda Paquet, Carole Bouffard, Pierre Brayer and Carl Béchard, as well as Olivier Asselin himself in a small role as Pyrrhon.

The film premiered at the 1990 Festival of Festivals.[3] It was later screened at the 1991 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, where it was the winner of the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma.[4]

After not being available for a number of years, a digital remastering of the film was screened in 2019 at the Cinémathèque québécoise.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Gilles Marsolais, "Retour aux sources: La liberté d’une statue d’Olivier Asselin". 24 images, No. 49 (Summer 1990). p. 4–7.
  2. 1 2  La liberté d’une statue » d’Olivier Asselin sera projeté à la Cinémathèque québécoise le 14 février". Lien Multimédia, February 14, 2019.
  3. Peter Goddard, "Film festival turns focus on Canada: Patricia Rozema's White Room first up". Toronto Star, August 1, 1990.
  4. "La Liberté wins Quebec festival". Ottawa Citizen, February 18, 1991.


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