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Le fabuleux gang des sept

Prix du meilleur film canadien au Festival International du Film de Vancouver Dans ce long métrage de fiction, sept femmes âgées se retrouvent pris au dépourvu lorsque leur autobus tombe en panne. Forcées d'unir leurs talents et leur ingéniosité pour organiser un séjour improvisé dans une maison abandonnée, elles apprendront à se connaître et deviendront rapidement complices. Ce film est interprété entièrement par des actrices non professionnelles et des dialogues improvisés.
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Prix du meilleur film canadien au Festival International du Film de Vancouver



Dans ce long métrage de fiction, sept femmes âgées se retrouvent pris au dépourvu lorsque leur autobus tombe en panne. Forcées d'unir leurs talents et leur ingéniosité pour organiser un séjour improvisé dans une maison abandonnée, elles apprendront à se connaître et deviendront rapidement complices. Ce film est interprété entièrement par des actrices non professionnelles et des dialogues improvisés.

Women Seniors Sexuality and Reproduction All subjects
Des films pour la Fierté Fiction All channels
  • director
    Cynthia Scott
  • producer
    David Wilson
  • editing
    David Wilson
  • executive producer
    Colin Neale
    Peter Katadotis
    Rina Fraticelli
  • associate producer
    Sally Bochner
  • script
    Gloria Demers
    Cynthia Scott
    David Wilson
    Sally Bochner
  • photography
    David De Volpi
  • sound
    Jacques Drouin
  • sound editing
    André Galbrand
    Danuta Klis
  • music recording
    Paul Pagé
    Louis Hone
    Ambroise Dufresne
  • music mixing
    Paul Pagé
    Louis Hone
  • sound mixer
    Hans Peter Strobl
    Adrian Croll
  • music
    Marie Bernard
  • cast
    Alice Diabo
    Constance Garneau
    Winifred Holden
    Cissy Meddings
    Mary Meigs
    Catherine Roche
    Beth Webber
    Michelle Sweeney

Education

Ages 15 to 17
School subjects
Arts Education - Visual Arts English Language Arts - CanLit Family Studies/Home Economics - Feminism Health/Personal Development - Human Growth and Development
Write a portrait of one character in film describing her personality and episodes that reveal it. Imagine her past. Group discussion — film explores what general concerns of women? Group discussion — how to shorten this film if you had to? Cut landscape or conversation? Why? Invite older people to class for discussion of characters’ behaviour in relation to age. What is it like to be older, and what is important?
Le fabuleux gang des sept
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