Rodrigue Jean Movies

The reality of addiction in a tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.

In an ever-expanding but nondescript North American city, Christophe, a middle-aged businessman, unexpectedly encounters Micha, a Russian acrobat...

The film tells the story of three couples on the road between the Atlantic coast and the Northwest Territories in Canada.

An intimate and unflinching look over 12 months at the hardscrabble lives of hustlers in downtown Montreal.

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of...

A strike at a sawmill in a small Canadian town puts Steph and Piston out of work. They want to resurrect their band but Marie-Lou, Piston's ex-wife...

A passionate and unpredictable film about three characters in love, Les Sauf-conduits explores the tenuous balance between friendship and romantic...

What remains of the 2012 Quebec student protests? Little has changed in the decade that ensued. Rodrigue Jean and Arnaud Valade exhume images of the...

A woman walks through an arid and desert-like place. She seems to have come out of nowhere. Her journey is punctuated with chance meetings and many...

Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the...

A man has a last telephone conversation with the lover who just left him. Call Waiting draws its inspiration from La voix humaine by Jean Cocteau.

Exquisitely filmed in black-and-white, this experimental narrative follows four friends on a road trip as they discover the complicated arena of...

A man murders his dying lover. He drowns him in a tub of water. We drift through the man's mind in the hours after the death. He falls more and more...

"Rodrigue Jean gives voice to people who have nearly drowned. The story of their disaster and the lessons they have drawn from it make us think that...

Male prostitution in a Montreal brothel run by a hard-nosed procuress.

This film traces a geography of the soul of ten men whose spirit flickers above the contemporary wreckage of life.

Ron recites a poem by Baudelaire from a book he's found on the street. Ti-Red, fresh out of prison, combs every inch of the district in search of his...