# Forgotten Flowers

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{{short description|2019 Canadian comedy film}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Forgotten Flowers
| native_name    = {{infobox name module|fr|Les fleurs oubliées}}
| image          = Forgotten Flowers poster.jpg
| caption        = Film poster
| director       = [André Forcier](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Forcier)
| producer       = Louis Laverdière<br>Linda Pinet<br>Jean-François Roesler 
| writer         = [Jean Boileau](/source/Jean_Boileau_(screenwriter))<br>André Forcier<br>[Renaud Pinet-Forcier](/source/Renaud_Pinet-Forcier)<br>[Linda Pinet](/source/Linda_Pinet)<br>[François Pinet-Forcier](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Pinet-Forcier)
| starring       = [Roy Dupuis](/source/Roy_Dupuis)<br>[Yves Jacques](/source/Yves_Jacques)<br>[Juliette Gosselin](/source/Juliette_Gosselin)<br>[Christine Beaulieu](/source/Christine_Beaulieu)<br>[Mylène Mackay](/source/Myl%C3%A8ne_Mackay)
| music          = André Forcier (as Robert Fusil)<br>Jo Millette 
| cinematography = [Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky](/source/Nathalie_Moliavko-Visotzky)
| editing        = Elisabeth Olga Tremblay
| studio         = Exogene Films<br>Les Films du Paria
| distributor    = Filmoption
| released       = {{film date|2019|09|16|[Cinéfest](/source/Cin%C3%A9fest_Sudbury_International_Film_Festival)}}
| runtime        = 102 minutes
| country        = Canada
| language       = French
| budget         = 
}}

'''''Forgotten Flowers''''' ({{langx|fr|Les fleurs oubliées}}) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by [André Forcier](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Forcier) and released in 2019.<ref>{{ill|Marc-André Lussier|fr}}, [https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/entrevues/201910/19/01-5246064-les-fleurs-oubliees-dandre-forcier-fantaisie-verte.php "Les fleurs oubliées, d’André Forcier : fantaisie verte"]. ''[La Presse](/source/La_Presse_(Canadian_newspaper))'', October 19, 2019.</ref> The film stars [Roy Dupuis](/source/Roy_Dupuis) as Albert Payette, an [agronomist](/source/agronomist) who has lived in seclusion making [mead](/source/mead) since becoming disillusioned with his former career, but whose life is turned upside down when the late Brother [Marie-Victorin Kirouac](/source/Marie-Victorin_Kirouac) ([Yves Jacques](/source/Yves_Jacques)) returns to earth to enlist his help in an environmental campaign to take down his former employer Transgenia over its line of toxic pesticides.<ref>Alex Rose, [https://cultmtl.com/2019/10/les-fleurs-oubliees/ "Roy Dupuis pukes actual rainbows in André Forcier’s Les fleurs oubliées"]. ''[Cult MTL](/source/Cult_MTL)'', October 25, 2019.</ref>

The film also stars [Juliette Gosselin](/source/Juliette_Gosselin) as Lili de Rosbil and [Christine Beaulieu](/source/Christine_Beaulieu) as Mathilde Gauvreau, a journalist and lawyer who also become involved in the campaign, and [Mylène Mackay](/source/Myl%C3%A8ne_Mackay) as Mathilde's ancestor [Marcelle Gauvreau](/source/Marcelle_Gauvreau), a fellow botanist with whom Marie-Victorin had an emotional, but not physical, romantic relationship with prior to his death.<ref>Marie-Lise Rousseau, [https://journalmetro.com/culture/2391146/fleurs-oubliees-bouquet-ecologique-et-psychedelique/ "«Les fleurs oubliées»: bouquet écologique et psychédélique"]. ''[Métro](/source/M%C3%A9tro_(Montreal_newspaper))'', October 25, 2019.</ref> Other cast members include [Émile Schneider](/source/%C3%89mile_Schneider_(actor)), [Donald Pilon](/source/Donald_Pilon_(actor)), [Dorothée Berryman](/source/Doroth%C3%A9e_Berryman), [Louis Champagne](/source/Louis_Champagne_(actor)), [Barbara Ulrich](/source/Barbara_Ulrich) and [France Castel](/source/France_Castel).

The film had its theatrical premiere on September 16, 2019 at the [Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival](/source/Cin%C3%A9fest_Sudbury_International_Film_Festival),<ref>Claudia Hébert, [https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1300925/quoi-voir-pour-ne-rien-manquer-cinefest "Quoi voir pour ne rien manquer du 31e Cinéfest"]. [Ici Radio-Canada](/source/Ici_Radio-Canada), September 15, 2019.</ref> before premiering commercially on October 25.<ref>André Lavoie, [https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/cinema/565535/les-fleurs-oubliees-une-flore-reinventee "«Les fleurs oubliées»: une flore réinventée"]. ''[Le Devoir](/source/Le_Devoir)'', October 25, 2019.</ref>

Mackay again played Marcelle in [Lyne Charlebois](/source/Lyne_Charlebois)'s 2023 film ''[Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful](/source/Tell_Me_Why_These_Things_Are_So_Beautiful) (Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles)'', a more conventional historical drama centred specifically on her relationship with Kirouac.<ref>Maxime Demers, [https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2023/09/07/le-film-dis-moi-pourquoi-ces-choses-sont-si-belles-sera-presente-en-cloture-du-festival-du-cinema-international-en-abitibi-temiscamingue "Le film «Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles» sera présenté en clôture du Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue"]. ''[Le Journal de Montréal](/source/Le_Journal_de_Montr%C3%A9al)'', September 7, 2023.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|8399104}}

{{André Forcier}}

Category:2019 films
Category:Canadian comedy films
Category:Films shot in Quebec
Category:Films set in Quebec
Category:Films directed by André Forcier
Category:French-language Canadian films
Category:2019 Canadian films
Category:2019 comedy films

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