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Chili's Blues (1994)

Directed by Charles Binamé

Overview

This French-Canadian drama takes place just after JFK’s assassination and provides insight into the psychological ramifications of that event with its portrayal of a love story between a confused teen and a travelling salesman in a Quebec railroad station. The date is Dec. 19, 1963 and train service has been delayed by a snow storm. Pierre-Paul is a door-to-door salesman. Chili is a despondent teenaged girl. When Pierre-Paul enters a washroom stall he is surprised to find a girl hunched over with a gun in her mouth. He runs to tell the stationmaster, but she has gone by the time they return. He tells the stationmaster that the girl was wearing a kilt. Unfortunately, the station is filled with other school girls dressed in the same outfit. Eventually Chili comes up to Pierre-Paul and a careful romance is initiated as she tells him over her troubled life.

Length 100 minutes

Actors

Roy Dupuis | Francine Ruel | Pierre Curzi | Marie-Chantal Perron | Lucie Laurier | Emmanuel Bilodeau | Julie Deslauriers | Brigitte Paquette | Pascale Montpetit | Michel Charette | Elise Guilbault | Fanny Lauzier | Normand Chouinard | Luc Proulx | Jean-François Pichette | Joëlle Morin | Steve Gendron | Marie-Renée Patry | Isabelle Brouillette | Margot Campbell | Claude Gagnon | Vincent Lemay-Thivierge | Marie-Josée Bergeron | Julien Laurier