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Bittersweet Memories is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Denise Filiatrault with Pascale Bussières
Bittersweet Memories (2004)
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Add to a movie listBittersweet Memories (French: Ma vie en cinémascope; lit. My Life in Cinemascope) is a Quebec, Canada film released in 2004. This biographical drama depicted the career of Quebec singer Alys Robi, as portrayed by Pascale Bussières. The film makes use of flashback sequences in order to connect her childhood, adolescence and adulthood to her later emotional crisis.
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Alice, later Alys, is a teenager who wants to go to Montreal to have a career as a singer. She receives an offer to join Jean Grimaldi’s comedy show, and begins an affair with his married son Olivier, despite her Catholic upbringing.Actors
Pascale Bussières
(Alys Robi)
Michel Barrette
(Napoléon "Paulo" Robitaille)
Serge Postigo
(Oliver Guimond)
Denis Bernard
(Lucio Agostini)
Noémi Yelle
(Alys Roby, adolescente)
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