Le Banquet | |
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Directed by | Sébastien Rose |
Produced by | Pierre Even |
Written by | Sébastien Rose Hubert-Yves Rose |
Starring |
Alexis Martin Raymond Bouchard Benoît McGinnis Catherine de Léan |
Cinematography | Nicolas Bolduc |
Edited by | Carina Baccanale Dominique Fortin |
Production
company |
Cirrus Communications
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Distributed by | Alliance Atlantis |
Release date
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Running time
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95 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Le Banquet is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Sébastien Rose and released in 2008.
Set at an unnamed university in Montreal amidst the backdrop of a student strike over rising tuition fees, the film centres on Bertrand (Alexis Martin), an idealistic young professor who battles the university administration after it refuses to expel a problem student (Benoît McGinnis) who is being disruptive in Bertrand's class.
The film's cast also includes Raymond Bouchard, Frédéric Pierre, Catherine de Léan, Pierre-Antoine Lasnier, Yves Jacques and Paul Ahmarani.
The film garnered five Genie Award nominations at the 29th Genie Awards in 2009:
It did not win any of the awards.