Lilies (1996) ( Lilies - Les feluettes )

Lilies (1996) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Lilies - Les feluettes
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Montreal World Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
John Greyson

Written By:
Michel Marc Bouchard

Actors:
Ian D. Clark ..... Chaplain/Father Saint Michel
Marcel Sabourin ..... The Bishop
Aubert Pallascio ..... Older Simon
Jason Cadieux ..... Young Simon
Danny Gilmore ..... Vallier
Matthew Ferguson ..... Young Bilodeau
Brent Carver ..... Countess De Tilly
Rémy Girard ..... The Baroness
Robert Lalonde ..... The Baron
Gary Farmer ..... Timothée
Alexander Chapman ..... Lydie-Anne
John Dunn-Hill ..... Warden
Paul-Patrice Charbonneau ..... Chauffeur
Michel Marc Bouchard ..... Photographer
Khanh Hua ..... Prison Ensemble

Synopsis:

In 1952 Québec, Bishop Jean Bilodeau is taking the last confession of an inmate in a prison. The bishop, locked in the confessional, is instead treated to a morality play orchestrated by the inmate and the chaplain of the prison and acted by the hardened inmates at the prison. The play shows the life of the bishop in 1912 when he and the inmate, named Simon Doucette, were fellow students at a Catholic boys school. They were once best friends. Simon and another student named Vallier began a homosexual relationship, one where Vallier was more open about his true feelings. Simon, repressing his feelings, instead began a relationship with a visiting woman named Lydie-Anne, the two who planned to move away from the town once they were married. Ultimately, the play shows Bilodeau's interaction with the group and his role in Simon's incarceration.

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. The inmates force the prelate to watch a play depicting what really happened in 1912. We meet him as a young man, strait-laced, intent on convincing Simon (now the convict) to join the seminary with him. Vallier, the son of an impoverished and eccentric countess, loves Simon and he is drawn to Vallier, but in fear of his father's wrath for kissing Vallier during drama rehearsal, Simon courts a visiting Parisian, asking her to marry him. Vallier, encouraged by his mother, attends the engagement party to declare his love for Simon. And what does the watchful Bilodeau do?

Set in a men's prison in 1952 Quebec, a bishop is brought to hear the confession of an important hardened criminal. Locked in the confessional by the man's fellow inmates, the bishop finds himself forced to watch the peformance in the prison chapel of scenes from the homoerotic play, 'The Death of St. Sebastian'. The play becomes a link to scenes from the men's past in 1912 northern Quebec, in which bishop and criminal were close boyhood friends.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 June, 2016.