Reviewed by Chris Allsop
(January 2011, screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Sébastien Pilote
Starring: Gilbert Sicotte, Nathalie Cavezzali, Jérémy Tessier, Jean-François Boudreau and Pierre Leblanc
The first feature from Canadian writer-director Sébastien Pilote, “The Salesman” is a thoughtful meditation on life, salesmanship and the clearance of snow.
The titular salesman is Marcel Lévesque (Gilbert Sicotte), the local, likeable top gun of the car lot. Lévesque is a workaholic, always selling, even when getting a drink at the bar. He’s also 67 and his only daughter wants him to retire, but without his wife (an absence that goes unexplained), there is little that attracts Lévesque to life after sales.
The backdrop of Lévesque’s story is Dolbeau-Mistassini, a one-factory town in a “resource extraction” region of northern Quebec. That one factory is on the brink of closure — it’s the only news on the radio — and its employees...
(January 2011, screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed/Written by: Sébastien Pilote
Starring: Gilbert Sicotte, Nathalie Cavezzali, Jérémy Tessier, Jean-François Boudreau and Pierre Leblanc
The first feature from Canadian writer-director Sébastien Pilote, “The Salesman” is a thoughtful meditation on life, salesmanship and the clearance of snow.
The titular salesman is Marcel Lévesque (Gilbert Sicotte), the local, likeable top gun of the car lot. Lévesque is a workaholic, always selling, even when getting a drink at the bar. He’s also 67 and his only daughter wants him to retire, but without his wife (an absence that goes unexplained), there is little that attracts Lévesque to life after sales.
The backdrop of Lévesque’s story is Dolbeau-Mistassini, a one-factory town in a “resource extraction” region of northern Quebec. That one factory is on the brink of closure — it’s the only news on the radio — and its employees...
- 1/21/2011
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- Moving Pictures Network
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