Nô
Screening on Film
Directed by Robert Lepage.
With Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marie Brassard, Alexis Martin.
Canada, 1998, 35mm, color and b&w, 83 min.
French with English subtitles.
With Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marie Brassard, Alexis Martin.
Canada, 1998, 35mm, color and b&w, 83 min.
French with English subtitles.
Internationally acclaimed playwright and actor/director Robert Lepage’s third cinematic release is a high-energy farce about Québecois separatists and sex in Osaka, Japan. Shifting between East and West, celebration and revolution, personal conflict and social turmoil—and even black-and-white and color film stocks—Nô masterfully wraps a daring political satire within a black comedy of errors. Of his wicked take on some of his nation’s, and the world’s, most controversial political and social themes, Lepage states, "There’s something about trying to be as faithful as one can to one’s culture in a world that’s increasingly trans- and multi-cultural. That is a real challenge for an artist."