Le confessionnal (The Confessional)

Director Robert Lepage
Year 1995
Run Time 100min
Genre Drama, Thriller
This award-winning feature-film debut by Robert Lepage is a Hitchcockian mystery set in Quebec City, both in the present (circa 1989) and in 1952, when Alfred Hitcock’s I Confess was filming on location.

Unfolding in flashbacks between the past and the present, the film follows the story of an adopted man on a search for his true identity, as recounted by his mother to a priest in a private confessional. Family secrets are on the line, blurred by the filming of I Confess. Further, lies and intrigue are clouding the air with mystery — and the foreshadowed sparks of the Quiet Revolution are growing louder.

Winner of the Genie for Best Film, Best Director and several others.

Director

Robert Lepage

Writer

Robert Lepage

Cast

Lothaire Bluteau, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patrick Goyette

Producers

Philippe Carcassonne, David Puttnam, Denise Robert

Genres

Drama, Thriller

Interests

Arts and Culture, Family Relationships

Original Language

French

Language Version

EN Subtitles

Canadian Distributor

eOne