{{short description|1986 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Anne Trister | image = | caption = | director = [[Léa Pool]] | producer = [[Roger Frappier]]<br>[[Claude Bonin]] | writer = [[Marcel Beaulieu]]<br>Léa Pool | starring = [[Albane Guilhe]]<br>[[Louise Marleau]]<br>[[Lucie Laurier]]<br>[[Guy Thauvette]] | music = [[René Dupéré]] | cinematography = [[Pierre Mignot]] | editing = Michel Arcand | studio = Les Films Vision 4<br>[[National Film Board of Canada]] | distributor = Ciné 360 | released = {{film date|1986|2|3|df=yes}} | runtime = 103 minutes | country = Canada | language = French | budget = C$1.38 million }}
'''''Anne Trister''''' is a 1986 Canadian [[drama film]] directed by [[Léa Pool|Léa Pool,]] and written by Pool and [[Marcel Beaulieu]].<ref name="pratley">[[Gerald Pratley]], ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}. p. 15.</ref> Starring Albane Guilhe, [[Louise Marleau]] and [[Lucie Laurier]], the film follows a Swiss [[Jewish diaspora|Jewish]] artist who leaves for [[Quebec]] after her father’s death. It won the [[Genie Awards|Genie Award]] for Best Cinematography and was screened in competition at the [[36th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
== Synopsis == Anne Trister is a Swiss [[Jewish diaspora|Jewish]] artist grieving the death of her father. She stops her studies and travels from Switzerland to [[Quebec]], where she visits her friend Alix, a [[psychologist]], and develops feelings for her. Anne also begins work on a large [[fresco]] in an unused studio.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Anne Trister |url=https://cfe.tiff.net/canadianfilmencyclopedia/content/films/anne-trister |access-date=6 May 2026 |website=Canadian Film Encyclopedia}}</ref>
==Cast== The cast includes:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anne Trister |url=https://www.filmpodium.ch/film/167321/anne-trister |access-date=6 May 2026 |website=Filmpodium |language=de}}</ref>
* Albane Guilhe as Anne * [[Louise Marleau]] as Alix * [[Lucie Laurier]] as Sarah * [[Guy Thauvette]] as Thomas * [[Hugues Quester]] as Pierre * Nüvit Özdogru as Simon * [[Kim Yaroshevskaya]] as the mother
== Production == The film was written by [[Marcel Beaulieu]] and [[Léa Pool]], based on an original idea by Pool. It was produced by Films Vision 4 and the [[National Film Board of Canada]], with an approximate budget of C$1.38 million. Filming took place from 18 March to 3 June 1985 in [[Montreal]], [[Lausanne]], [[Geneva]] and [[Tel Aviv]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Anne Trister – Film de Léa Pool |url=https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/anne-trister-lea-pool/ |access-date=6 May 2026 |website=Films du Québec |language=fr}}</ref>
==Release== The film premiered on 3 February 1986, in Quebec,<ref name=bailey>Bruce Bailey, "Anne Trister's subtle - but it's also far too arty and pretentious". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', February 8, 1986.</ref> and was screened in competition at the [[36th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref>"Lea Pool takes over Quebec movie spotlight". ''[[Regina Leader-Post]]'', February 18, 1986.</ref>
==Critical response== Ron Base of the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' wrote that the film "is as pristine and as empty as a modern art gallery at midnight" and called it a film "about emotion, empty of emotion". He concluded that although ''Anne Trister'' had "moments of beauty and emotion", much of it returned to "a studied, almost smug self-consciousness", and that its exploration was unsuccessful.<ref>Ron Base, "Trister mired deep in her pretensions". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', March 27, 1987.</ref>
Noel Taylor of the ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'' wrote that "there's no denying Anne Trister is technically an accomplished work, but its skill is more clinical than visceral. It excites admiration for Pool, the film-maker, without arousing much interest in Pool, the person. I would have liked to discover more."<ref>Noel Taylor, "Mixed-up artist a heroine of few words, two expressions". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', May 29, 1987.</ref>
For the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', Bruce Bailey wrote that "while Pool's talent for spareness and subtlety is carried over from [[A Woman in Transit|that film]] to Anne Trister, this latest effort suffers to at least some extent from slow pacing and an arty pretentiousness that is at times almost laughable."<ref name=bailey/>
''[[Filmdienst]]'' described the film as a sensitive and thematically rich study of the search for identity and new meaning in life, while noting reservations about its combination of realistic and metaphorical scenes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anne Trister - Zwischenräume |url=https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/1817/anne-trister-zwischenraume |access-date=6 May 2026 |website=Filmdienst |language=de}}</ref>
== Awards and nominations == {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Award ! Year ! Category ! Recipients ! Result ! class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref.|References}} |- | [[Créteil International Women's Film Festival|International Women’s Film Festival, Créteil]] | 1986 | Audience Award | ''Anne Trister'' | {{won}} | <ref>{{cite web |title=Léa Pool |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lea-pool |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=6 May 2026}}</ref> |- | rowspan=3|[[Genie Awards]] | rowspan=3|[[8th Genie Awards|1987]] | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] | [[Lucie Laurier]] | {{nom}} | <ref>"Nominees for Genie awards". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', February 5, 1987.</ref> |- | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]] | [[Pierre Mignot]] | {{won}} | <ref>Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. [[Stoddart Publishing]], 2000. {{ISBN|0-7737-3238-1}}.</ref> |- | [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]] | [[Danielle Messia]], "De la main gauche"<br><small>The song was named the original winner of the award, but it was subsequently rescinded after the academy discovered that it had not been written for the film.</small> | {{dropped|Disqualified}} | <ref name=rescind>"Academy rescinds Genie award". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 12, 1987.</ref> |- | [[Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival]] | 1992 | Best Feature Film | | {{won}} | |}
== See also == * [[List of LGBT-related films directed by women]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0090648}}
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