Nô movie storyline. This Canadian comedy, filmed in black and white and color and adapted from Lepage’s play The Seven Branches of the River Ota. In October 1970, Montreal actress Sophie (Anne-Marie Cadieux) appears in a Feydeau farce at the Osaka World’s Fair. Back in Montreal, her boyfriend Michel (Alexis Martin) watches the October Crisis on TV and sees Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau declare the War Measures Act. The Canadian Army patrols Montreal streets.
Sophie learns she’s pregnant and phones Michel. However, Michel is immersed in politics, while Sophie rejects the amorous advances of her co-star (Eric Bernier), becomes friendly with a blind translator, and passes an evening with frivolous Canadian embassy official Walter (Richard Frechette) and his wife Patricia (Marie Gignac). Meanwhile, in Montreal, Michael plots terrorist activities.
Nô is a 1998 Canadian film by director Robert Lepage. It was based on one segment in Lepage’s play Seven Streams of the River Ota. The title is a pun which reflects the film’s dramatic structure, linking the 1980 Quebec referendum (in which the “no” won) to Japanese Nō theatre.
Nô (1998)
Directed by: Robert Lepage
Starring: Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marie Gignac, Richard Fréchette, Marie Brassard, Alexis Martin, Jean Leloup, Patrice Godin, Jean Charest, Normand Bissonnette
Screenplay by: Robert Lepage, André Morency
Production Management: Michèle St-Arnaud
Cinematography by: Pierre Mignot
Film Editing by: Aube Foglia
Costume Design by: Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt
Music by: Michel F. Côté, Bernard Falaise
Distributed by: New Yorker Films
Release Date: September 25, 1998
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