Skipping school certainly contains its perks. First time actress (and climate change activist) Sara Montpetit has landed the lead role in Sébastien Pilote‘s fourth feature film, Maria Chapdelaine. The young thesp beat out about one thousand plus hopefuls for the role; she’ll be surrounded by Hélène Florent, Sébastien Ricard, Émile Schneider, Antoine-Olivier Pilon (Xavier Dolan’s Mommy), Robert Naylor (Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology), Gilbert Sicotte (who played the lead in Pilote’s Cannes selected Le Vendeur), Gabriel Arcand with additional parts going to Henri Picard, Martin Dubreuil, Danny Gilmore, Arno Lemay, Charlotte St-Martin, Thomas Haché, and Xavier Rivard-Désy.…...
- 2/17/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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