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Chaos Reigns: Barbeau-Lavalette’s La déesse des mouches à feu Tops the 2021 Quebec Oscars

Published on June 7, 2021

Measuring up against the likes of Sophie Dupuis‘ just released sophomore film (a Val-d’Or set dramatic thriller) Souterrain, it’s Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette‘s third feature (a Chicoutimi set coming-of-ager) La déesse des mouches à feu (a 2020 Berlin Film Festival winner) that claimed the top prize at this year’s Gala Québec Cinéma aka Prix Iris Awards. Barbeau-Lavalette’s won Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Caroline Néron) and Newcomer of the Year (Kelly Depeault) and Best Editor Stéphane Lafleur (Tu dors Nicole helmer).

Souterrain did nab Dupuis the Best Screenplay award, Best Sound, and a much deserving best Supporting Actor for Théodore Pellerin. Best Actress went to Émilie Bierre for Jeanne Leblanc’s Les nôtres (which will be distributed by Oscilloscope Films) – she beat out the likes of Margaret Qualley for My Salinger Year and Sarah Sutherland for Like a House on Fire by Jesse Klein – a former writer here at IONCINEMA.com. Best Actor went to Sébastien Ricard for Le club Vinland.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Chaos Reigns: Barbeau-Lavalette’s La déesse des mouches à feu Tops the 2021 Quebec Oscars