SPECIAL OFF SITE PRESENTATION
PLEASE NOTE! All films in the DOCUMENTARIES OF THE 21st CENTURY IN QUEBEC series will be screened at the Salle Martial-Caron at the College universitaire de Saint-Boniface, 200 De Cathedrale Ave.
* Admission is free and all are welcome
ROGER TOUPIN, ÉPICIER VARIÉTÉ
Dir. Benoît Pilon | 2003 | 97 mins. | French with English subtitles
Roger Toupin, épicier variété, paints a moving portrait of a small business its owner, and a quiet homage to its long history. Pilon takes in the atmosphere of this place, which is as much a store as a meeting place for long-time residents. It is also a study of the rapidly changing Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, once a working-class area of Montreal populated by large families that has become a resident yuppie hotspot, increasingly expensive with far fewer families. Roger Toupin is an odd character, but we cannot but grow to like him as we learn about his kindness, his ever-lasting love for his deceased girlfriend, the care and love he gives his aging mother, and his indomitable faith in God.
