Directed by Stéphane Lafleur | Canada/Québec | French w/ English subtitles | Fiction | 93 mins
Sponsored by Allan Nicholls & Nancy Bercaw
Listed as “Canada’s Top Ten” feature films of 2014, Tu Dors Nicole is the third film from the Quebec filmmaker, Stéphane Lafleur, who is probably best known as the editor of the Oscar –nominated Monsieur Lazar. Tu dors Nicole is a film about a 22 year-old woman spending a hot, uneventful summer in the suburban house of her parents while they are away on vacation. Fresh out of college, without a real road map in front of her, Nicole makes her steps into early adulthood with a languor suggesting that the lazy summer will last forever. Shot in gorgeous black-and-white 35 mm, the film captures the unspoken uncertainties of early adult life with a sustained absurdist tone. Unlike so many coming-of-age films, Lafleur offers no easy answers about transitions and crises.