Inspiré de l’œuvre théâtrale Lipsynch de Robert Lepage, ce long métrage de fiction est une fresque urbaine contemporaine qui raconte l’histoire de trois personnages : Michelle (Lise Castonguay), libraire schizophrène; Marie (Frédérike Bédard), chanteuse et comédienne, et Thomas (Hans Piesbergen), neurologue allemand. Trois vies, trois destinées se croisent et se mettent à résonner. Réalisé par Robert Lepage et Pedro Pires, Triptyque est une déclinaison sensible et profondément émouvante sur les thèmes de la mémoire et de l’identité.
In this short film, our protagonist Michelle suffers from schizophrenia and has just come out of a psychiatric institution. Finding refuge in the Quebec bookstore where she works, this tortured poet seems almost serene. But no one knows what she sees and hears when she lets her gaze drift. The ghosts, the self-inflicted wounds, the paranoia: they still weigh on her. When a student wanders into the bookstore, Michelle rediscovers her love of creating with words. Through this chance meeting of two completely different people, Michelle gradually finds her way out of the darkness.
This short film is part of Triptych, a contemporary urban saga based on Robert Lepage's epic theatre piece Lipsynch.
Triptych is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle, a schizophrenic bookseller, her sister, Marie, a singer and actress, and Marie’s future husband, Thomas, a German neurosurgeon. Against a backdrop of written and visual poetry, the film depicts three pivotal moments in the lives of these characters while touching on an array of subjects—artistic expression, social engagement versus solitude, the many nuances of emotion. In this study of human communication in all its forms and complexity, these three lives intersect in their quests for personal identity and a burning desire for self-expression. Directed by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires, this film adaptation of Lepage’s epic, nine-hour play Lipsynch captures the essence of the original work, which deals with the human voice.
Adapted from excerpts of Robert Lepage's theatrical epic Lipsynch, this short drama profiles Marie, a jazz singer left with temporary aphasia following brain surgery. Memory gaps have robbed her of parts of her childhood, and she is particularly devastated by her inability to remember the voice of her father, who died when she was 12. Desperate, Marie searches through old home movies in an attempt to reconstruct the voice and words of the father she loved so deeply. Marie grasps at anything she can find to hear the sound of his forgotten voice, but it is only at the end of this process, and in the most unexpected of places, that she will finally hear its echo.
Ce court métrage de fiction est une adaptation de l’œuvre théâtrale Lipsynch de Robert Lepage. Après avoir subi une opération au cerveau, Marie a notamment oublié la voix de son père, mort lorsqu’elle avait 12 ans. Avec toute l’aide qu’elle parvient à trouver et de vieux films de famille, elle tente de faire revivre cette voix. Mais c’est à un endroit insoupçonné qu’elle en retrouvera l’écho.
This short fiction is part of Robert Lepage's three-piece cinematic work Triptych, itself an adaptation of Lepage's own epic nine-hour theatre play. Like his namesake in Caravaggio's iconic painting, Thomas is doubtful of everything: his marriage, his profession, and even the city where he lives. Marie, a jazz singer
from Montreal, is devastated by the news that she must undergo brain surgery and finds herself desperately in search of
comfort.
Bathed in dreamlight,
London is the half-fantasized, half-real backdrop for the improbable but
fateful meeting of these two troubled souls. Beneath Michelangelo’s Sistine
Chapel fresco and on the chilly docks of the Thames, the singer and the brain
surgeon seek, find and then lose each other in this existential urban fable.
Court métrage de fiction réalisé par Robert Lepage et Pedro Pires. Schizophrène, Michelle vient de faire un séjour dans un institut psychiatrique. Dans la librairie où elle travaille à Québec, elle semble presque sereine. Pourtant, les fantômes, les blessures qu’elle s’inflige, la paranoïa… rien n’a disparu. Ce n’est que peu à peu qu’elle retrouvera le plaisir des mots et de la création.
Ce court métrage de fiction est la troisième et dernière partie du drame psychologique Triptyque, réalisé par le cinéaste Pedro Pires et le metteur en scène Robert Lepage.
De sa relation avec sa femme à son métier de neurochirurgien, en passant par Londres où il vit, Thomas doute de tout. Souffrant d’une tumeur au cerveau, Marie, une chanteuse de jazz, cherche désespérément un réconfort. Au cœur de Londres ni tout à fait réelle, ni tout à fait fantasmée, la chanteuse et le neurochirurgien se cherchent, se trouvent et s’égarent à nouveau dans cette fable urbaine et existentielle.