Dream Life

1972 / dir. Mireille Dansereau / 90 min / New 2K Restoration

After starting a new job at a local film production company, Isabelle (Liliane Lemaître-Auger) meets animator Virginie (Véronique Le Flaguais) and the two become fast friends. Over the course of a freewheeling, sun-dappled Montreal summer, the pair supports each other through evolving experiences of love, loss, labor, and politics. A fleet-footed and generous filmmaker, Mireille Dansereau’s debut feature (and the first feature film directed by a woman in Quebec) moves breathlessly through several films’ worth of aesthetic ideas and narrative modes. A path-breaking portrait of female friendship, Dream Life (La vie rêvée) is high-water mark of Seventies Canadian cinema and a spritely hidden gem primed for rediscovery.

Arbelos is proud to present this new 50th anniversary 2K restoration by Éléphant – mémoire du cinéma québécois.

Screenings:
November 4-10, 2022	Metrograph	New York, NY	tickets
November 12, 2022	Cinema Moderne	Montreal, Quebec	tickets
December 2-5, 2022	The Cinematheque	Vancouver, British Columbia	tickets
December 12-22, 2022	The American Cinematheque	Los Angeles, CA	tickets
February 28, 2023	Wexner Center for the Arts	Columbus, OH	tickets
March 18, 2023	Metro Cinema	Edmonton, AB	tickets
April 14-18, 2023	The Trylon Cinema	Minneapolis, MN	tickets
June 11, 2023	TIFF Cinematheque	Toronto, ON	tickets