The Wind from Wyoming

{{Infobox film | name = The Wind from Wyoming | native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Le Vent du Wyoming}} | image = | caption = | director = [[André Forcier]] | producer = Nardo Castillo Claude Léger | writer = Patrice Arbour André Forcier Jacques Marcotte | starring = Sarah-Jeanne Salvy [[France Castel]] [[Céline Bonnier]] [[Michel Côté (actor)|Michel Côté]] [[Marc Messier]] | music = Christian Gaubert | cinematography = [[Georges Dufaux]] | editing = [[Jacques Gagné]] | studio = Eiffel Productions Les Productions EGM Transfilm |distributor =[[Les Films Séville|Malo]] | runtime = 99 minutes | released = {{Film date|1994|09|02|[[Montreal World Film Festival|FFM]]}} | country = Canada | language = French | budget = }} '''''The Wind from Wyoming''''' ({{langx|fr|Le Vent du Wyoming}}) is a Canadian black comedy film, directed by [[André Forcier]] and released in 1994.<ref>"Le Vent du Wyoming blows in with emotional-knockout power". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', August 28, 1994.</ref>

The film centres on a dysfunctional family whose efforts at finding and keeping love become tangled up with a stage [[hypnotist]] performing at the local hotel.<ref name=reality>"'Reality doesn't interest me at all': Filmmaker Andre Forcier's work Le vent du Wyoming is up for the grand prize at Montreal's World Film Festival - now, he says, if only people will come to see it". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', August 27, 1994.</ref> Daughter Léa (Sarah-Jeanne Salvy) is in unrequited love with Reo (Martin Randez), a boxer who has instead entered a relationship with her mother Lizette ([[France Castel]]), while her sister Manon ([[Céline Bonnier]]) has a crush on Chester Celine (François Cruzet), a writer she has never met, and her father Marcel ([[Michel Côté (actor)|Michel Côté]]) remains hurt by Lizette's betrayal of him. They all enlist Albert the Great ([[Marc Messier]]) to hypnotize their respective love interests, but the effort backfires and forces them to deal with unintended consequences.<ref name=reality/>

==Production== The film's original working title was ''Ababouiné''.<ref>Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/vent-wyoming-andre-forcier/ "Vent du Wyoming, Le – Film d’André Forcier"]. ''Films du Québec'', June 12, 2009.</ref> This was changed before the film's release, but was later recycled as the title of Forcier's 2024 film ''[[Ababooned]] (Ababouiné)''.<ref>[https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/2024-07-03/le-dernier-film-d-andre-forcier-a-fantasia.php "Le dernier film d’André Forcier à Fantasia"]. ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]'', July 3, 2024.</ref> The film is dually listed in [[Gerald Pratley]]'s 2003 book ''A Century of Canadian Cinema'', with separate entries for ''Ababouiné'' and ''The Wind from Wyoming''.<ref name=pratley>[[Gerald Pratley]], ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}. pp. 8, 241.</ref>

==Distribution== The film premiered at the [[Montreal World Film Festival]] in 1994.<ref>"Eighteenth annual filmfest looks like the strongest yet; Over 300 films from 60 countries". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', August 10, 1994.</ref>

It was released on 4 screens on September 2, 1994 and grossed $18,578 in its opening 4-day weekend.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=September 7, 1994|title=Film box office report|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|page=8}}</ref>

==Awards== At Montreal, the film won the awards for Best Canadian Film and the International Critics Prize.<ref>"List of 1994 World Film Festival award winners". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', September 6, 1994.</ref> Forcier was shortlisted for [[Canadian Screen Award for Best Director|Best Director]] at the [[15th Genie Awards]],<ref>"The Genie nominees". ''[[Kingston Whig-Standard]]'', October 20, 1994.</ref> At the [[Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois]] in 1995, Forcier won Best Screenplay and Salvy won the Revelation of the Year award for emerging performers;<ref>"Octobre takes $5,000 top prize at Rendez-Vous". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', February 14, 1995.</ref> the film was also a nominee for Best Picture, but did not win.<ref>"And then there were six; Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois narrows field for top prize". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', January 25, 1995.</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0111601}}

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