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Madwoman of God
20081 h 16 min 30 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Jean-Daniel Lafond
Production: Jean-Daniel LafondJohanne BergeronYves Bisaillon
Script: Jean-Daniel Lafond
A story of the passion between a nun and God, her "divine spouse," Jean-Daniel Lafond's film paints an astonishing portrait of Marie de l'Incarnation, a mid-seventeenth-century mystic who abandoned her son and left France to build a convent in Canada, where she became the first female writer in New France.
A religious adventure story, the film shows actress Marie Tifo seeking to inhabit this unusual role. Using a script by Jean-Daniel Lafond, she tackles the nun's incandescent writing and her candid letters to her son. The documentary fuses actress and role, past and present and takes us on a truly extraordinary historical and artistic journey.
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Subject categories
- Theater > Companies and Performances
- Women - Portraits > Historical FiguresReligion and Spirituality
- History - Canada - Pre-1867 > New France 1600-1760PortraitsQuébec
- Women > Religion and Spirituality
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Women
- Arts Education > Drama
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Feminism
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage
- History and Citizenship Education > Society in New France (1608-1760)
Credits
- cast
- Marie Tifo
- Lorraine Pintal
- Dominique Deslandres
- Gabrielle, Soeur Noëlle
- Aline Apostolska
- Bernard Keating
- Marguerite, Soeur Chénard
- François Vincent
- Jacques Lacoursière
- Louise Courville
- Marie Chouinard
- research
- Jean-Daniel Lafond
- research assistant
- Mylène Béliveau
- writer
- Jean-Daniel Lafond
- director
- Jean-Daniel Lafond
- producer
- Jean-Daniel Lafond
- Johanne Bergeron
- Yves Bisaillon
- editor
- Babalou Hamelin
- director of photography
- Michel La Veaux
- camera assistant
- Philippe Arsenault
- Ugo Brochu
- François Gamache
- lighting
- Steve Renaud
- location sound
- Marcel Chouinard
- Normand Lapierre
- Pierre Bouchard
- sound design
- Stéphane Larivière
- sound design assistant
- Guillaume Daoust
- Sylvain Richard
- music design
- Louise Courville
- music - performance
- Louise Courville
- Lyne Lavigueur
- Isabelle Marchand
- makeup
- Brigitte Bilodeau
- set decorator
- Claude Gasser
- production manager
- Yannick Savard
- assistant production manager
- Jacinthe Lauzier
- Doris Lapierre
- location photographer
- Michel La Veaux
- Yan Turcotte
- production assistant
- Philippe David Gagné
- David Giasson
- Jean-Sébastien Lambert
- Catherine Lavoie
- Raymond Maranda
- André Ouellet
- driver
- Christian Laberge
- digital editing
- Phyllis Lewis
- Pierre Dupont
- Martine Forget
- online editor
- Denis Pilon
- translation
- Fred Reed
- Christine York
- subtitles
- Christine York
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- foley recording
- Luc Léger
- music recording
- Luc Léger
- Sylvain Cajelais
- voice recording
- Audio Postproduction SPR Inc.
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- marketing officer
- Julie Arseneault
- Jenny Thibault
- marketing officer - assistance
- Solen Labrie Trépanier
- administration
- Denise DesLauriers
- Johanne Dubuc
- administrative team
- Mirabelle Bélanger
- Dominique Brunet
- Lise Lévesque
- production coordinator
- Hélène Regimbal
- technical coordinator
- Jean-François Laprise
- associate producer
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- executive producer
- Yves Bisaillon