Film

Le Dortoir

Director

François Girard

Year

1991

Reveal to him once again the wonderful world of his early years so full of foreboding.

A dance drama telling of a man's journey back into memory and imagination to escape, and finally overcome, a personal crisis. A convent school dormitory is the setting for a chronicle of fleeting impressions told through dance, music and images ranging from the erotic to the violent, and are infused with a mixture of high romanticism and gritty urban toughness.