Guillaume de Fontenay

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Guillaume de Fontenay (born March 6, 1969) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his feature film debut Sympathy for the Devil (Sympathie pour le diable), which received three Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020. Prior to releasing Sympathy for the Devil, de Fontenay worked primarily in theatre and advertising, and directed the short film Le Retour Triptyque in 2012. He first signed on to direct Sympathy for the Devil in the mid-2000s after reading war correspondent Paul Marchand's book, but the film was delayed by various production complications, including Marchand's death in 2009, and was not completed or released until 2019. At the Canadian Screen Awards, de Fontenay was nominated alongside Guillaume Vigneault and Jean Barbe for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the film was also nominated for the John Dunning Best First Feature Award. Vigneault, Barbe, and de Fontenay also received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Screenplay at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, where de Fontenay was also a nominee for Best Director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guillaume de Fontenay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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A meditation on human connection within our own solitude. Three journeys, three solitudes. Life, death, and the other.

Le Retour Triptyque

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A meditation on human connection within our own solitude. Three journeys, three solitudes. Life, death, and the other.

Sympathy for the Devil

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In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.

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Le Retour Triptyque

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A meditation on human connection within our own solitude. Three journeys, three solitudes. Life, death, and the other.

Agent Zero

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When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity as Badh, a ruthless intelligence operative and skilled assassin. She brutally eliminates members of the Khoury family one by one, unleashing the fury of their leader Mansour, only to discover that Mansour is working with Joana, her former secret service unit officer.