“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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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
(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