Lilies – Theater of Passion – Wikipedia

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Lilies – theater of passion (Original title: Lilies – Feluettes ) is a Canadian film drama from 1996, in which theater and film merge. All roles are played by men. In different time levels, deep feelings, temptation and guilt are presented. Directed by John Greyson.

Bishop Bilodeau came to a prison in Québec in 1952 to remove a confession in the chapel. Simon, a prisoner convicted of murder, is a friend of the bishop from adolescence. As soon as it turns out, he wants to light the truth of that time and take revenge. The bribed prison attendants do not intervene when Bilodeau is violently captured.

He and Simon see how the fellow prisoners stage a play by Gabriele D’Annunzio to awake old memories from 1912. At that time the young Simon and his friend Vallier fell in love with each other. The young, pious Bilodeau is also in love with the attractive Simon, which he always observes, but is rejected by him.

The life of the local residents of Roberval is changing when the dark-skinned Lydie-Anne ends up with a hot air balloon. It is a rich seductive Miss from Paris and is Babylonierin called. Simon is chaired by his father and therefore ends his relationship with Vallier. He is now becoming interested in women. Lydie-Anne soon falls in love with him and she is getting lost. Before Simon tears off with her in the balloon, he and Vallier open their love for each other for the first time.

Vallier’s mother, the impoverished countess de Tilly, has been waiting in vain for news from her husband for years. Her illuminated world collapses when her Lydie Anne reveals that she met the count, his young wife and daughter in Lyon. At her request, Vallier strangled his mother. Bilodeau advises Simon and Vallier to flee because the entire population is after them. Simon is accused of having lit the monastery. Bilodeau wants a kiss by Simon, which rejects it as sick. The room then sets on the room and blocks the two lovers in it. He runs away, but returns and saves the unconscious Simon. Vallier dies. At the court hearing, Lies lies and Simon blames the fault, which is subsequently convicted of the death of Vallier.

After all, after forty years, the bishop admits that he could have saved Vallier, but did not. He asks Simon to kill him. But this kisses him and leaves him alone in the chapel with a knife in his hand.

The director John Greyson filmed the stage play Feluettes His screenwriter Michel Marc Bouchard. The budget was around 2.2 million CAD. The film was first published on September 7, 1996 at the Toronto International Film Festival. The German first publication fell on February 26, 1998.

There are DVDs in German, with an English original sound, German subtitles, as well as Starinfos by John Greyson and the main actors. The film is also available as a German-language VHS cassette.

  • Cinema and www.tvpielfilm.de mentioned the “Skillful fusion of different narrative and time levels” and described the film as “Strong and emotional rights.” [first] [2]
  • Dirk Jasper Filmlexikon said: “‘Lilies’ is a pop-like happening: Christian suffering is bold, love is equal to holiness and pure desire controls behavior in the eternal struggle against the prevailing norms of wellness.” [3]
  • The Berlin Morgenpost wrote in a review on March 5, 1997: “… a ridiculous lubrication comedy, a satirical film on the tuning films of the past ten years.”
  • The film service (04/1998) saw the film as “Silitation of a stage play that contributes little to deal with current questions of homosexuality in the staging of the game-in-game by the strong emphasis on the formal aesthetic side.” [4]
  • DVD-Cover:
    • “A film full of emotions and poetic power that, staged, is on the best way to the classic.”
    • “Bewitching … unique … a strong, poetic vision.” (New York Film Festival)
    • “A sensual festival for the eye and ear, heart and mind.” (Toronto International Films)
  • In 1996 John Greyson won the Montréal World Film Festival for the Best Canadian film .
  • In 1996 John Greyson was at the Locarno International Film Festival for one Golden Leopard nominated.
  • In 1996 the film received four genius Awards:
    • Sandra Kybartas for the best equipment,
    • Linda Muir for the best costumes,
    • Don Cohen, Keith Elliott, Scott Purdy, Scott Shepherd and Don White for the best sound,
    • Robin Cass, Arnie Gelbart and Anna Stratton for the best film.

The film was nominated for genius Awards in ten other categories and was also successful at other festivals.

  1. ↑ Cinema
  2. ↑ www.tvspielfilm.de
  3. ↑ Dirk Jasper movie lexicon ( Memento from July 13, 2006 in Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ www.djfl.de ( Memento from July 13, 2006 in Internet Archive )