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Sundays

2011 · 14 min

A quiet, offbeat drift through ordinary lives that feels gently strange and a little lonely.

Directed by: Jean-Guillaume Bastien
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Loralie Beaupré-Brien, Gabriel Bujold, Alexandra Caron

Overview: In the small town of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, three short stories unfold in the surreal atmosphere of a Sunday. An imaginative boy and his sister play inside their house, a Colombian priest faces his new community while giving an uneasy mass and a teenager falls into the reality of work.

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Directed by: Jean-Guillaume Bastien
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Loralie Beaupré-Brien, Gabriel Bujold, Alexandra Caron

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Tone: whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
family
faith
work
coming-of-age
Places: small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	3
Realism	6
Romance	1
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Jean-Guillaume Bastien
Written by: Jean-Guillaume Bastien
Starring: Loralie Beaupré-Brien, Gabriel Bujold, Alexandra Caron, Mathieu Castonguay
Cinematography: Vincent Biron
Runtime: 14 min
Country: Canada
Languages: French

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