BORIS WITHOUT BEATRICE is a morality tale with fairy-tale inflections that focuses on Boris Malinovsky, an affluent, successful businessman who comports himself with an extreme degree of pride and arrogance. When his wife, a Minister of the Canadian Government, is rendered nearly catatonic by a mysterious depression, it triggers a series of events that brings Boris to the point of professional, personal, and even existential crisis. His attempts to repair his relationships with his wife and estranged daughter are complicated by his affair with a colleague, and the dangerous relationship that develops with his young housekeeper. And to make matters worse, Boris has to contend as well with an enigmatic, threatening, and uncannily all-knowing figure played – with typical relish and theatrical flair – by the great Denis Lavant. BORIS WITHOUT BEATRICE is at once a sharply observed character study, an unsparing portrait of the moneyed classes, and an audaciously dark fable.
Boris Without Beatrice
Boris Without Beatrice
A film by Denis Côté
Year: 2016
Country: Canada
Runtime: 93 min
Color: Color
Language: French
Subtitles: English
About the Director
Denis Côté (born November 16, 1973) is an independent filmmaker and producer living in Quebec, Canada. He studied film at Collège Ahuntsic in Montreal and founded nihilproductions around 1994. In 2005, his first feature film, Les états nordiques (Drifting States), won the Golden Leopard – Video at the Locarno International Film Festival. The 2009 documentary Carcasses was presented at the Cannes Film Festival at the Directors’ Fortnight in May 2009.
His 2012 documentary Bestiaire, filmed at Parc Safari in Hemmingford, Quebec, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and was also shown at the Berlin Film Festival.
His 2013 film Vic and Flo Saw a Bear premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival,[3] where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize.[4]
For his 9th feature film Boris sans Béatrice (2016), Denis Côté teamed up with local star actor James Hyndman and imagines the life of fictitious businessman Boris Malinovsky. The film premiered at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in 2016.
In 2015, Ministry of Culture and Communications (France) officially named Denis Côté a Knight of the Order of the Arts and Letters.
Cast and Crew
CREW
Executive Producer：Michel Merkt
Producers: Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant
Director: Denis Côté
Screenplay: Denis Côté
Director of Photography: Jessica Lee Gagné
Editing: Nicolas Roy
Sound Design：Frédéric Cloutier
Music by: Ghislain Poirier
Art Direction : Louisa Schabas
CAST
James Hyndman
Simone-Elise Girard
Denis Lavant
Isolda Dychauk
Home Media
Awards and Festivals
Berlin International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
New Horizons Film Festival
AFI Fest
Taipei Film Festival
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Play Dates
| Festival/Theater | City | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthology Film Archive | New York | NY | 9/8/17 |
| Grand Illusion Cinema | Seattle | WA | 9/22/17 |
| International House Philadelphia | Philadelphia | PA | 10/14/17 |
