Revoir Julie (Julie and me) 1998 - 91 min, -
fiction - 16mm
French with English subtitles
After a break up, Juliet is putting her life back
together.
Top of her 'things to do' list is to see an old
friend she
has'nt seen for 15 years. Juliet visits Julie in
the country,
and the two spend all week end talking, eating and
trying to catch up.
with Stéphanie Morgenstern and
Dominique Leduc
presentation
With Michka Saäl, then Gilles Desjardins, we wrote several
different stories of what would later become Revoir Julie. We explored many avenues.
In the beginning, the story
was supposed to be set in Toronto. Julie and Juliet were meant to go to Niagara
Falls. I had done some location scouting with my assistant to find a motel in
which to shoot the action (no, Marilyn Monroe’s motel never existed). The
people in charge of reception took us for a engaged couple and were very
gracious. I had found an incredible place: a motel surrounded in alphalt with
no trees, not even one square cm of lawn or plants, with a swimming pool in the
middle of the parking lot
In the end, we droped the Falls thing. And Toronto.
awards
Audience Award: Best fiction
and Special Jury Award
Festival Immaginaria, Bologne, February 2000
Audience Award: Best fiction
Festival CIneffable, Paris, November
1999
Nonimee for Best Quebec feature film Award from l'AQCC, February 1999
Nasty Weather
We started filming on 5 May 1997. It should’ve been very pleasant work; a
film shot in spring in an idyllic setting. Two days later, there was 10
cm of snow on the ground. Among other things, I had chosen Julie’s
house for its many openings and the beauty of its natural light. For a
week, we had to frame in such a way as to avoid seeing the snow-covered
fields through the windows. We had to add a woollen sweater to the
costume designer’s creations so that Dominique could say her lines
without her teeth chattering. And when the snow finally melted, the lawn
turned to mud. And when the weather finally eased, black fliesappeared.
Daily Delights
In spite of it all, I think that the crew has kept good memories of the
shoot. This was in large part thanks to Brendon Vallejo. Since we were
20 km from the nearest cafe, he had been hired to feed the crew. With
the modest means of the production, he concocted simple and delicious
meals for us. He once worked for the Toqué! Restaurant, and now
he has his own award-winning and acclaimed restaurant, somewhere in Australia. Hello to you, Brendon, and thanks for comforting us.
A Big Impression
Julie and Me was presented in about fifty festivals, on four continents
and also allowed me to travel a lot. I met some wonderful people in
Vancouver, Austin, London, Cape Town, Bologna, Dijon, and Toulouse,
among others. I still have a fond memory of the Castro Cinema, an Art
Deco splendour in the heart of San Francisco. Before a full house, the
presenter called, “And now, please give a warm welcome to filmmaker
Jeanne Crépeau.” The audience generously applauded, I headed up
to the stage, missing the last step and falling flat on my face. That’s
when I learned an important life lesson: either you just lie there, on
the stage of the Castro, in front of 1 400 people, waiting for death to
save you from the shame, or you get up and do the best stand up comedy
show you ever thought possible. It starts with: “Gee, your warm welcome
really DID make a big impression on me.”
Michel
Lamothe, Terry Lalos, Martin Allard,
Martyne Morin, Marie-Linda Bilodeau,
Melissa Malkin, Isabelle Richard,
Dominique Leduc, Ivan Gegoff, Jeanne
Crépeau, Josée Boisvert,
Eric Bachand, Hugo Brochu, Sophie Lebeau,
Nadine Fournelle, Phylis Katrapani,
Stéphanie Morgenstern, Mario Luis and Brendon Vallejo.
photo
Véro Boncompagni
Stéphanie
Morgenstern, Marcel Sabourin and Dominique
Leduc
credits
Julie
Dominique Leduc
Juliet
Stéphanie Morgenstern
Mr Provencher
Marcel Sabourin
mother
Muriel Dutil
aunt
Lucille Bélair
teenage Juliet
Marie-Pierre Côté
teenage Julie
Mariève Deslongchamps
Julie's voice as a child
Marianne Paradis
voice of the flowers
Jean Deschamps
voice of the rocks
Myra Cree
voice of the maple sirup
Stéphane Lépine
with the friendly performance of Jacques
Higelin
and the Barnston-Ouest residents, as themselves.
with the cats Bagdad et Babylone,
the dogs Simbad, Mozart and Tchéra,
Whisky the gerbil, the cows of Mr
Holmes
and the unknown duck.
this films was produced thanks to the
generosity of the cast and crew who differed part of their wages
and with financial support form
SODEC,
(Société de
développement des entreprises
culturelles-Québec), Canada Council
for the arts (film production grant), National FIlm Board of Canada
(Aide au
cinéma indépendant
canadien), Tax Credit Programm from
Gouvernment of
Québec and from
Téléfilm Canada.
screenplay
Jeanne Crépeau
with the participation of Gilles Desjardins and Michka Saäl
director
Jeanne Crépeau
director of photography
Michel Lamothe
additional images
Stéphan Ivanov
stills and Super 8
Jeanne Crépeau
shooting stills
Véro Boncompagni
assistant camera
Phillys Katrapani
assistant to the additional dop
Danny Racine
key electric
Yvan Gegoff
occasional electric
Manal Hassib
additional electric
Vincent Dow
sounds
Martyne Morin
additional sounds
Dominique Chartrand
Michel Charron
boom
Martin Allard
occasional boom
Hugo Brochu
Pierre Bertrand
costumes
Josée Boisvert
sets
Terry Lalos
assistant props
Jeanne Crépeau
graphic arts
Andrée Lauzon
make up
Sophie Lebeau
additional make up
Johanne Archambault
hair
Benjamin Robin
hair color
Réjean Goderre
casting advisor
Lucie Robitaille
teenager casting
Muriel Lafferière
line producers (development)
Martine Beauchemin
Muriel Lizé
Céline Mineau
line producer (shoot)
Melissa Malkin
ACIC-ONF producer
Monique Létourneau
production coordinator
Jeanne Crépeau
assistant director
Isabelle Richard
assistant director (development)
Louis Bolduc
Guy Bouchard
location scouting
Jeanne Crépeau
continuity
Nadine Fournelle
trainee director
Eric Bachand
production assistants
Marie-Linda Bilodeau
Mario Luis
Jeanne Crépeau
additional production assistant
Jean-Pierre Doucet
clerk
Jeanne Crépeau
chef-cook-magician
Brendon Vallejo
assistant to the chef
Laura Auclair
additional cook
Jeanne Crépeau
editing
Myriam Poirier
opticals
Michel Dubois
animation bench
Mangouste
animation
Jeanne Crépeau
titles
Coviamage
Serge Langlois
Lise Dagenais
animation bench (titles)
Claude Lapierre
assistant editor
Natacha Dufaux
Anne Ardouin
Pamela Gallant
second assistant editor
Jeanne Crépeau
negative cut
Claudine Blain
post production advisors
Conrad Perreault
Isabelle Dupuis
synchronisation
Marc Perron
post-production coordinator
Jeanne Crépeau
post-production accountant
Jean Brien
sound design and re-recordong
Daniel A. Vermette
dialogue editing
Sonia Neveu
effects editing
Luc Mandeville
folley
Philippe Desbiens
backgrounds editing
Lusse Cloutier
post production recording
Stéphane Labonté
Daniel A. Vermette
original music
Karen Young
guitars
Sylvain Provost
acoustic bass and piano
Normand Lachapelle
drums and percussion
Pierre Tanguay
trompet
Bill Mahan
singer alto
Josée Lalonde
singer soprano and synthesizers
Karen Young
music post production
Jean Lacasse
music recording
Michel Lambert
music mixing
Karen Young
Jean Lacasse
Michel Lambert
Studio Le Divan vert
contact lenses
Louis René Lamarche, opticien
lab
Covimage, groupe Covitec
sound post production
Muses, le Centre inc.
assurances
Taillefer Desjardins inc.
directed and produced by
Jeanne Crépeau
Extract from Rue Deschambault by Gabrielle
Roy
copyright: Fonds Gabrielle Roy
«Dans la cuisine» song by
Brigitte Fontaine and
Areski Belkacem, sang by Brigitte Fontaine
Extracts from songs «Tête en
l'air» and «Vague à
l'âme» by Jacques Higelin, sang by Dominique
Leduc
and Stéphanie Morgenstern
«John Riley», traditionnal,
music by
Stéphanie Morgenstern, sang by herself.
«La promenade» by Robert
Walser,
«Pour un oui ou pour un non» by Nathalie Sarraute
are puplished at Éditions
Gallimard
«La petite poule d'eau» by
Gabrielle Roy published at
Éditions du Boréal
thanks to François Bouvier and
Jean Brien
from Productions du lundi matin.
thanks to Céline Baril,
Emmanuelle Beaugrand-Champagne, Fernand
Bélanger, Paule Biron, Guy
Bouchard, Johanne Bougie, Louis Bolduc,
Johanne Boisvert, Dierdre Bowen, Richard
Brodet et Suzanne Benoit, Dominique
Cormier, Zabelle Côté, Michel
Charron, Marielle Cyr, Sabina Desertine,
Arlette Dion, Sophie Dubé, Sylvaine
Dufaux, Louise Dugal, Les Films de
l'autre, Jeannine Gagné, Carole
Gagnon, Vincent Gauthier, Sylvie Gauthier,
Paul Higelin, Stanley Holmes, Kristina
Ivanova, Roger Langlois et Chantal, Marc
Langlois, Jean-Philippe Laroche,
Andrée Lauzon, Fabienne Lavoie de
la Halte écologique des battures de
Saint-André de Kamouraska, Lyne
Locas, Nadine Ltaïf, Michel Madore,
Main film, Sylvie Masse, Mastri, Catherine
Martin, André Ménard,
Madeleine Poulin, Chantal Neveu, Louise
Overy, Marc Pérusse, Michel
Préville, Tahani Rached, Sayedali
Rawji, François Ricard, Lucie
Robitaille, Nathalie Saint-Pierre et
Roland Bréard, Marie-Claude
Sénécal, Marie-Jan Seille,
Barbara Shrier, Suzie Synnott and Pol
Turgeon.
shot in Montreal,
in the Estern Townships, at Saint-André de Kamouraska,
Québec and in Maine.
To Jean-Claude, to Lili, to Paulette.
All three of them left to tickle the clouds as I was editing this film.
Too young, too quickly, too soon. I will never forget them.
