# Anne Trister > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anne_Trister > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Anne_Trister.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Trister > Source revision: 1352795567 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1986 film Anne Trister Directed by Léa Pool Written by Marcel Beaulieu Léa Pool Produced by Roger Frappier Claude Bonin Starring Albane Guilhe Louise Marleau Lucie Laurier Guy Thauvette Cinematography Pierre Mignot Edited by Michel Arcand Music by René Dupéré Production companies Les Films Vision 4 National Film Board of Canada Distributed by Ciné 360 Release date 3 February 1986 (1986-02-03) Running time 103 minutes Country Canada Language French Budget C$1.38 million ***Anne Trister*** is a 1986 Canadian [drama film](/source/Drama_film) directed by [Léa Pool,](/source/L%C3%A9a_Pool) and written by Pool and [Marcel Beaulieu](/source/Marcel_Beaulieu).[1] Starring Albane Guilhe, [Louise Marleau](/source/Louise_Marleau) and [Lucie Laurier](/source/Lucie_Laurier), the film follows a Swiss [Jewish](/source/Jewish_diaspora) artist who leaves for [Quebec](/source/Quebec) after her father’s death. It won the [Genie Award](/source/Genie_Awards) for Best Cinematography and was screened in competition at the [36th Berlin International Film Festival](/source/36th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival).[2][3] ## Synopsis Anne Trister is a Swiss [Jewish](/source/Jewish_diaspora) artist grieving the death of her father. She stops her studies and travels from Switzerland to [Quebec](/source/Quebec), where she visits her friend Alix, a [psychologist](/source/Psychologist), and develops feelings for her. Anne also begins work on a large [fresco](/source/Fresco) in an unused studio.[2] ## Cast The cast includes:[4] - Albane Guilhe as Anne - [Louise Marleau](/source/Louise_Marleau) as Alix - [Lucie Laurier](/source/Lucie_Laurier) as Sarah - [Guy Thauvette](/source/Guy_Thauvette) as Thomas - [Hugues Quester](/source/Hugues_Quester) as Pierre - Nüvit Özdogru as Simon - [Kim Yaroshevskaya](/source/Kim_Yaroshevskaya) as the mother ## Production The film was written by [Marcel Beaulieu](/source/Marcel_Beaulieu) and [Léa Pool](/source/L%C3%A9a_Pool), based on an original idea by Pool. It was produced by Films Vision 4 and the [National Film Board of Canada](/source/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](/source/Montreal), [Lausanne](/source/Lausanne), [Geneva](/source/Geneva) and [Tel Aviv](/source/Tel_Aviv).[3] ## Release The film premiered on 3 February 1986, in Quebec,[5] and was screened in competition at the [36th Berlin International Film Festival](/source/36th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival).[6] ## Critical response Ron Base of the *[Toronto Star](/source/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.[7] Noel Taylor of the *[Ottawa Citizen](/source/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."[8] For the *[Montreal Gazette](/source/Montreal_Gazette)*, Bruce Bailey wrote that "while Pool's talent for spareness and subtlety is carried over from [that film](/source/A_Woman_in_Transit) 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."[5] *[Filmdienst](/source/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.[9] ## Awards and nominations Award Year Category Recipients Result Ref. International Women’s Film Festival, Créteil 1986 Audience Award Anne Trister Won [10] Genie Awards 1987 Best Supporting Actress Lucie Laurier Nominated [11] Best Cinematography Pierre Mignot Won [12] Best Original Song Danielle Messia, "De la main gauche" 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. Disqualified [13] Paris Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival 1992 Best Feature Film Won ## See also - [List of LGBT-related films directed by women](/source/List_of_LGBT-related_films_directed_by_women) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-pratley_1-0)** [Gerald Pratley](/source/Gerald_Pratley), *A Century of Canadian Cinema*. Lynx Images, 2003. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-894073-21-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-894073-21-5). p. 15. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_2-1) ["Anne Trister"](https://cfe.tiff.net/canadianfilmencyclopedia/content/films/anne-trister). *Canadian Film Encyclopedia*. Retrieved 6 May 2026. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:1_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:1_3-1) ["Anne Trister – Film de Léa Pool"](https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/anne-trister-lea-pool/). *Films du Québec* (in French). Retrieved 6 May 2026. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Anne Trister"](https://www.filmpodium.ch/film/167321/anne-trister). *Filmpodium* (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2026. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-bailey_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-bailey_5-1) Bruce Bailey, "Anne Trister's subtle - but it's also far too arty and pretentious". *[Montreal Gazette](/source/Montreal_Gazette)*, February 8, 1986. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** "Lea Pool takes over Quebec movie spotlight". *[Regina Leader-Post](/source/Regina_Leader-Post)*, February 18, 1986. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Ron Base, "Trister mired deep in her pretensions". *[Toronto Star](/source/Toronto_Star)*, March 27, 1987. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Noel Taylor, "Mixed-up artist a heroine of few words, two expressions". *[Ottawa Citizen](/source/Ottawa_Citizen)*, May 29, 1987. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["Anne Trister - Zwischenräume"](https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/1817/anne-trister-zwischenraume). *Filmdienst* (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2026. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Léa Pool"](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lea-pool). *The Canadian Encyclopedia*. Retrieved 6 May 2026. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** "Nominees for Genie awards". *[Ottawa Citizen](/source/Ottawa_Citizen)*, February 5, 1987. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Maria Topalovich, *And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards*. [Stoddart Publishing](/source/Stoddart_Publishing), 2000. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-7737-3238-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7737-3238-1). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-rescind_13-0)** "Academy rescinds Genie award". *[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)*, May 12, 1987. ## External links - [*Anne Trister*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090648/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Léa Pool Strass Cafè (1980) A Woman in Transit (1984) Anne Trister (1986) Straight for the Heart (1988) Rispondetemi (1991) The Savage Woman (1991) Desire in Motion (1994) Set Me Free (1999) Lost and Delirious (2001) The Blue Butterfly (2004) Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (2008) The Last Escape (2010) Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011) The Passion of Augustine (2015) Worst Case, We Get Married (2017) Hotel Silence (2024) We'll Find Happiness (2025) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Anne Trister](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Trister) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Trister?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.