A film by

Ana Tapia Rousiouk
Renaud Després-Larose

A film by

Ana Tapia Rousiouk
Renaud Després-Larose

“An admirable cri du coeur.

Mubi Notebook Festival

“An absolute pleasure for a cinephile.”

Eye For Film

“A whirlwind tour of film history fittingly immersive for the big screen.”

The Film Verdict

“Strikingly
beautiful.

Film comment

Synopsis

Constance works for an independent radio station where she broadcasts sound creations of political character. She lives with Eugene, an aspiring writer, voluntarily withdraws from the outside world. Each week, the couple welcomes Beatrice, a lonesome and tragically-minded homeless young woman, in their modest apartment. Destiny makes Constance and Beatrice stumble upon Raoul Debord, a mystery-man at the head of a clandestine revolutionary organisation, whose upcoming mission is to hijack all the city’s radio waves.

It is an essay in transfiguring the anguishes of a certain youth concern with the state of things.

From the Director’s Statement of Le Rêve et la Radio press kit.

Credits

A film by

Renaud Després-Larose and Ana Tapia Rousiouk

Written by

Renaud Després-Larose, Ana Tapia Rousiouk and Geneviève Ackerman

Starring

Geneviève Ackerman, Ana Tapia Rousiouk, Renaud Després-Larose, Étienne Pilon, Luis Neves, Leslie Mavangui, Maria-Gabriela Garcia-Rousiouk, Marc Landry, Mario Gauthier, Chantale Laplante

Art direction

Charles-Antoine Turcot

Photography

Renaud Després-Larose

Sound design

Ana Tapia Rousiouk

Sound editing and mixing

Ariel Harrod, Simon Gervais

Music

Mario Gauthier

Sales & distribution

La Distributrice de Films

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Awards
& Festivals

International Film
Festival Rotterdam
Woche der Kritik
Berlin Critic’s week​
DOXA Vancouver
Film Festival​
Seoul Int. Women
Film Festival
Doc Lisboa
Int. Film Festival
Pacific Meridian
IFF Vladivostok
ECRA Film Festival
Rio de Janeiro
QuebeCine
MX, Mexico
Rendez-vous Quebec
Cinema, Montreal

Film Reviews

Le Rêve et la Radio de Renaud Després-Larose et Ana Tapia Rousiouk se démarque par une approche sincère et généreuse. Puisant dans leur propre vie, les deux cinéastes québé­cois bricolent avec humour un univers teinté d’onirisme punk.

O. COOPER-HADJIA

March, 2022

À propos de La bande des quatre (1989) de Jacques Rivette, Serge Daney disait que la seule vérité du film, c’est l’hésitation. […]  Le rêve et la radio de Renaud Després-Larose et Ana Tapia Rousiouk semble reconduire l’intuition de Daney à propos du film de Rivette.

Carlos solano

March, 2022

Canadian filmmakers Renaud Després-Larose and Ana Tapia Rousiouk pay tribute to Stan Brakhage, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Godard and Pedro Costa in their first feature, an intriguing experimental exercise looking at the history of cinema and old-school political activism.

Clarence Tsui

February 5, 2022

A film that manages to be, despite the weight of the heritage, a work that has the same freshness, the same freedom, the same purity as La Maman et la putain.

(From Italian) Eugenio Renzi (2022, February 18)«Le rêve et la radio», il piacere di raccontare il quotidiano tra finzione e realtà. Il Manifesto quotidiano comunista https://ilmanifesto.it/le-reve-et-la-radio-il-piacere-di-raccontare-il-quotidiano-tra-finzione-e-realta