Avant les rues: A tale of resilience
Avant les rues is an extraordinary film in several respects. It’s the first fiction feature in the Atikamekw language; its main actors – all brilliant –…
Browsing: Scena Arts
Film: Our picks (April-May 2016)
Mobile étoile Although it has been in theatres since March 25, we had to mention the film Mobile étoile, which is set in the world of…
The Art of Italian Fashion
What protects us, decorates us and tells others what we are and what we like? Clothing, of course! It conveys social signals and also marks…
This Week in Montreal (March 28–April 3)
Emerging Musicians with Pro Musica Young violinist Kerson Leong has taken the music world by storm. He won first junior prize at Oslo’s Menhuin Competition…
Book Review: River Music by Mary Sonderstrom
River Music Mary Soderstrom Cormorant Books, 276 pages River Music, the sixth novel from Montréaler Mary Soderstrom, follows the life of Gloria, a pianist who…
Anne Frank lives in New York
The Secret Annex, a play by New York-Winnipeg writer and performer Alix Sobler, asks: “What if Anne Frank had survived and lived in Brooklyn?” As Hitler…
Jean-Philippe Duval: The Cultural Hunter
Jean-Philippe Duval in his studio. Photo Marc Bourgeois Passionate about Québécois culture, nature, and wilderness canoeing, filmmaker Jean-Philippe Duval seems to have been predestined to…
Théâtre de Quat’Sous: 60 Years Young
Wajdi Mouawad nicknamed it the “great little theatre”. As far as “great” is concerned, Quat’Sous has the fame — and now also the age,…
Double Meaning: Margaret Atwood on Pauline
Poet. Trailblazer. Canadian luminary. These descriptors apply as much to Margaret Atwood as they do to the subject of her first libretto, E. Pauline Johnson.…
Anna Karenina: Dancing on the Grave of Love
Is Anna Karenina the greatest novel ever written? Dostoyevsky and Nabokov declared it “flawless.” Faulkner described it as “the best ever written.” Hemingway, Woolf, Proust,…
