Yellowknife

Jean returns to the desolate vision of human sexuality which he pursued in his debut Full Blast (1999). Not knowing where their needs and desires will take them, the characters drift through emotional purgatory in the stuggle to find out what they want out of life. Max and Linda, attempting to find harmony and solace, meet up with singer Marlene, her shady manager Johnny and twin strippers Bill and Billy. The destinies of the different couples are intertwined through the resemblance of their views on sexuality. Like a road movie in low gear, Yellowknife lacks the open- ness and expressed freedom of other films within the same genre. Its milieus are instead the motels, bars and nightclubs, where the characters end up at the end of the day. The sex in Yellowknife is like a primal scream, emotions replacing what words cannot express. The characters have either an economic relation to sex, or no defined relation whatsoever. Identifying their own bodies and sexual desires becomes an integral part of the film and opposes a clearcut social structure of human relations. Ex-disco queen Patsy Gallant (Marlene) and Helene Florent (Linda) are superb as the female leads. JOHAN LINDQVlST

Medverkande
Sébastian Huberdeau,Hélène Florent,Patsy Gallant: Producent
Ian Boyd, Phyllis Laing: Manus
Rodrigue Jean: Foto
Yves Cape: Musik
Robert Lepage: Talat språk
English,French