Julie Deslauriers Movies

The shadow of fatherhood looms large over three thirty-something friends who may not be ready to tackle such lofty responsibilities in French director Ricardo Trogi's heady relationship comedy. Despite his seeming ambivalence towards the prospect of fatherhood, Fred (Patrice Robitaille) is forced to make up his mind regarding the matter when his girlfriend purposefully fails to renew her prescription for birth-control pills. Meanwhile, the pregnant belly of Paul's (Pierre-Francois Legendre) girlfriend is driving the terrified father-to-be to seek physical gratification elsewhere for fear that he will never again sleep with another woman. Though Fred and Paul's good friend Sébastian (Jean-Philippe Pearson) appears to be adjusting to fatherhood well enough following the birth of his eight-month-old child, the loving father and husband soon begins to suspect that life may be passing him by and prepares to risk everything to find out. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

This French-Canadian drama takes place just after JFK's assassination and provides insight into the psychological ramifications of that event with its portrayal of a love story between a confused teen and a travelling salesman in a Quebec railroad station. The date is Dec. 19, 1963 and train service has been delayed by a snow storm. Pierre-Paul is a door-to-door salesman. Chili is a despondent teenaged girl. When Pierre-Paul enters a washroom stall he is surprised to find a girl hunched over with a gun in her mouth. He runs to tell the stationmaster, but she has gone by the time they return. He tells the stationmaster that the girl was wearing a kilt. Unfortunately, the station is filled with other school girls dressed in the same outfit. Eventually Chili comes up to Pierre-Paul and a careful romance is initiated as she tells him over her troubled life. They eventually have sex, but immediately afterward she claims that she wasn't the girl in the stall. The truth comes out at the picture's end. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi