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Roger Toupin, épicier variété (2003)
Gentrification in Montreal eclipses real life
17 March 2008
Roger Toupin is the aging son of a couple in Montreal who started a neighborhood variety store in the 1940s. Roger resists change, but he remains a fixture of life in the 'hood, consoling, collecting the essence of souls who frequent the small variety store started by his parents in the center of Montreal. You must listen to them, especially Nestor, a life of torment since his adolescence, at the hands of the state and the Roman Catholic Church. Nestor is like the old man in Bergman's classic Smultron stället (Wild Strawberries) 1957; he emerges from a life of torment, and lives for the present, and for hope. It is in Quebecois French, a documentary. The people are real, and embraceable
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