André Forcier

The vitality of the Qubec film scene depends on regular booster shots from a certifiable enfant terrible André Forcier the eminence grise of iconoclasts has been making loopy disrespectful human comedies for nearly forty years He became interested in film while studying classics at college. A typical Forcier picture is a topsyturvy mix of harsh realism and goofy fantasy a poverty stricken intoxicating world of bars, rooming houses and boxing gyms. His unromanticized even Rabelaisian portraits of people on the fringes include Bar salon, Au clair de la lune in which a dreamy albino bum takes a walk in the sky and Une histoire invente in which a lusty actress is followed through the streets by forty adoring lovers. In Le Vent du Wyoming, Forcier celebrates cabaret acts, somnambulism and boxing and like all his work it’s poetic and absurd.

Source: Take Ones Essential Guide to Canadian Film.