Moody Beach is a Canadian drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 1990.[1] The film stars Michel Côté as Simon, a man in the throes of a midlife crisis who quits his job and undertakes a road trip to the United States after inheriting a beach house from his late mother, only to find Laurence (Claire Nebout), a young woman from France, squatting on the property.[2]
The film premiered at the 1990 Montreal World Film Festival.[3] Its premiere attracted the longest ticket lineup of any film at the festival, which Noel Taylor of the Ottawa Citizen attributed to the success of Côté's prior film Cruising Bar,[3] but the film was only modestly successful in commercial release.[4]
The film was not favourably reviewed by critics. Taylor called it soporific and boring, dismissing it as a "pretentious melodrama",[5] while Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail lambasted it, writing that it was "full of silence and fury, signifying . . . you guessed it - nada, zilch, rien. Or, at least, nothing that doesn't seem like so much pseudo-intellectual posturing on the head of a metaphysical pin. Yep, we got a brand new genre here: pin-head existentialism."[2]
^Paul De Lean, "Mood wears thin in Quebec-made 'Beach'". Montreal Gazette, October 6, 1990.
^ abRick Groen, "Film Review: Moody Beach". The Globe and Mail, December 21, 1990.
^ abNoel Taylor, "Canadian movies rise to the top; Some cause for joy at Montreal festival". Ottawa Citizen, September 1, 1990.
^Charles-Henri Ramond, "Moody Beach – Film de Richard Roy" 2019-08-17 at the Wayback Machine. Films du Québec, January 28, 2009.
^Noel Taylor, "Moody Beach is so laid back it's boring". Ottawa Citizen, March 26, 1991.
^Christopher Harris, "Black Robe leads race for Genies; Film community notes surprising omissions in list of nominees". The Globe and Mail, October 10, 1991.
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