There Are No False Undertakings
Synopsis
Fiction bleeds into reality. Women declare themselves pregnant with the letter E! Denzel Washington plays himself in a popular sitcom. Mélusine Catafor abandons her identity in the city of Three-Rivers to seek a new one in Montreal where she hopes to learn English and where her best friend, Marie-Cobra Tremblay strives to birth an Odyssey.
Festivals
- FNC - Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Canada, 202o.
- FICFA - Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Canada, 2020.
- RVQC - Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma, Montreal, Canada, 2021.
- Singapore International Festival of Arts, 2021.
Director: Olivier Godin
Script Olivier Godin
Cast: Leslie Mavangui, Tatiana Zinga Botao, Francois-Simon Poirier
DOP: Renaud Despres-Larose
Sound: Ana Tapia Rousiouk & Michael Binette
Editing: Olivier Godin
Art direction: Annick Marion
Costumes: Gabrielle Lauzier
Witchcraft: Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin Gagnon & Johannie Deschambault
Production management: Marie-Pier Lacroix Couture
Production: Olivier Godin
Version
Original: French
Subtitles: English
Format
1. 85:1/5.1
DCP, Pro Res
Olivier Godin studied cinema at Ahuntsic College, then at Concordia University. His short films La Boutique de Forge (2012) and Bengal Fire (2014) each won the award for best Canadian short film at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. In 2013, she received the CALQ Prize for Full Love, elected best work of art and experimentation. In 2014, a first retrospective of his work was presented at the Cinémathèque Québécoise, the same year that Nouvelles, Nouvelles, his highly acclaimed second feature film, was released. He is also the author of the feature films Les arts de la parole (2016), Waiting for April (2018) and There is no false profession (2020). Ireland Blue Notebook is his sixth feature film.
