French Immersion (film)
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Directed by | Kevin Tierney |
Written by | Jefferson Lewis Kevin Tierney |
Produced by | Kevin Tierney Claude Bonin |
Starring | Oluniké Adeliyi Dorothée Berryman Martha Burns Pascale Bussières Gavin Crawford Fred Ewanuick Karine Vanasse Colm Feore |
Cinematography | Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky |
Edited by | Arthur Tarnowski |
Music by | Laurent Eyquem |
Production company | Park Ex Pictures |
Distributed by | TVA Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Languages | English French |
Budget | $6.3 million |
French Immersion, subtitled It's
In an interview with Northernstars.ca, a website dedicated to Canadian film history, Tierney mentioned a potential sequel where instead of a French immersion course, the characters would be taking an English immersion one in Regina, Saskatchewan.[4]
Synopsis
The film centres on several
In Saint-Isidore, nearly all of the 2,000 residents have the surname Tremblay—the sole exceptions are Pierre-Émile Dagnais (Yves Jacques), the strictest and most disciplinarian teacher at the French immersion school, and Kumar (Ali Hassan), a chef from Mumbai who moved to the town because he'd been told the region was where all of Quebec's Indians were. The town's most powerful residents are Sylvie Tremblay (Pascale Bussières), the head of the French immersion school, and her father (Robert Charlebois), a corrupt Senator.[5]
Cast
The casting for this film was done by Rosina Bucci.
- Gavin Crawford - Bobby Sexton
- Pascale Bussières - Sylvie Tremblay
- Colm Feore - Michael Pontifikator
- Oluniké Adeliyi - Aretha Marley
- Fred Ewanuick - Colin MacGonagle
- Karine Vanasse - Julie Tremblay
- Martha Burns - Cathy
- Jacob Tierney - Jonathan Hornstein
- Dorothée Berryman - Therese Tremblay
- Jean-Guy Bouchard - Euclide Tremblay 'Papa'
- Robert Charlebois - Senator Tremblay
- Yves Jacques - Pierre-Émile Dagnais
Release
The film premiered in
Home Media
French Immersion was released on DVD on January 24, 2012.[7]
Reception
Critical response
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, French Immersion has an approval rating of 40%, and an average rating of 4.8/10. One of the websites critic describes the film as "Funny in both official languages, French Immersion is the story of career-conscious English Canadians who flock to a small Quebec town to meet a Tremblay and learn French."[8]
Accolades
On May 28, 2012, at the Big Island Film Festival, French Immersion won best feature film.[9]
On June 8, 2012, at the Canadian Comedy Awards, French Immersion was nominated for best film, Jefferson Lewis and Kevin Tierney for best writing, Tierney for best direction, and Oluniké Adeliyi for best female performance.[10] Gavin Crawford won for best male performance.[11]
References
- ^ a b "French Immersion: A hilarious bilingual, bicultural sendup". The Globe and Mail, November 7, 2011.
- ^ "Bilingual film pokes fun at bilingualism". Toronto Star, October 4, 2011.
- ^ "French Immersion". tribute.ca. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
- ^ "Kevin Tierney". NorthernStars.ca. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
- canoe.ca, October 6, 2011.
- ^ "Reviewed! French Immersion". Playback. October 11, 2011.
- ^ "French Immersion". NorthernStars.ca. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
- ^ "French Immersion (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
- ^ "2012 Big Island Film Festival Announces Official Selections – 57 Films From Hawaii and Around the World Selected". Damon Tucker. March 29, 2012.
- ^ "Michael, French Immersion lead Canadian Comedy Awards noms". Playback. June 8, 2012.
- ^ "Picnicface, Roller Town win big at Canadian Comedy Awards". Playback. August 27, 2012.
- ^ "Café de Flore leads Genie32 race" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
External links
- French Immersion at IMDb