Fair Sex

Dec 4, 2012

1h 29m

★ 5.9

Overview

Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Productions Sisyphe

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Cast

Sophie

Marie-Evelyne Lessard

Frédéric

Marc-André Brunet

Normand

Normand Daoust

Geneviève

Stéphanie Dawson

Guillaume

Alexandre Dubois

Bernard

Michel Vézina

Guy in the alley

Alexandre Castonguay

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