Le confessional (The Confessionnal)
This award-winning feature-film debut by Robert Lepage is a Hitchcockian mystery set in Quebec City, both in the present (circa 1989) and in 1952, when Alfred Hitcock’s I Confess was filming on location.
Unfolding in flashbacks between the past and the present, the film follows the story of an adopted man on a search for his true identity, as recounted by his mother to a priest in a private confessional. Family secrets are on the line, blurred by the filming of I Confess. Further, lies and intrigue are clouding the air with mystery — and the foreshadowed sparks of the Quiet Revolution are growing louder.
Winner of the Genie for Best Film, Best Director and several others.
Director(s):
Robert Lepage
Writer(s):
Robert Lepage
Producer(s):
Philippe Carcassonne, David Puttnam, Denise Robert
Cast:
Lothaire Bluteau, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Goyette
Genre(s):
Drama, Thriller
Language(s):
French
Subtitles:
English
Region:
Le Confessionnal is filmed and set in Quebec. Robert Lepage is from Quebec.