Michel Forget
Birthday: 1942-02-27 Place of Birth:
Synopsis
Acting
The Sticky Side of Baklava
The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France.
Home Sweet Home
Ben's not as sharp as he once was. Thank god he's got his wife around to look out for him. But something's not right. Something seems to be lurking in the shadows and this time it's up to him to figure it out.
Aurore
After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
The Woman Who Drinks
On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything she had: "Loneliness and aging are themes that impose themselves on me, in one form or another. As for alcoholism, it fascinates me because of the revolt it underpins, and revolts me because of the unhappiness it creates around itself.
Orders
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
