LIVERPOOL

Directed by: Manon Briand
Language: French

Length: 115 minutes

Screening Information
Sunday September 9 — Scotiabank 7 (Press &Industry) — 11:30 AM
Tuesday September 11 — TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 — 9:45 PM
Thursday September 13 — Scotiabank 4 — 6:45 PM

Talent Attending
Manon Briand – director

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Award-winning Quebec director Manon Briand returns to the Festival with this lively, genre-bending caper that sends an unlikely heroine careening into the Montreal underworld. Braving the big city with her cat Jack Kerouac, sweet-natured Émilie (Stéphanie Lapointe) — an endearing mix of Amélie Poulain and a modern-day Holly Golightly — works as a coat-check girl at the exclusive Liverpool nightclub, which allows her ample opportunity to pursue her favourite sport: people-watching. She secretly pines after adorable clubgoer Thomas (Charles-Alexandre Dubé) — who, with his fitted suit and classic, baby-blue Fiat 500, looks like he’s stepped out of La Dolce Vita — and the feeling is mutual, though both are too shy to do anything about it. But everything changes one night when a young woman overdoses in the club, which inspires the sympathetic Émilie to return the girl’s coat to her hotel room — an act of kindness that plunges her into a byzantine world of forged identities, corporate intrigue and organized crime. Turning to Thomas for help, Émilie and her would-be beau embark on a dizzy quest for justice.

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