AN EYE FOR BEAUTY A FILM BY DENYS ARCAND 2014 / 102 min / Canada / French, English / Drama US Distributor: Publicity: HOOK PUBLICITY 173 Richardson Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 USA Jessica Uzzan Office: +1.718.312.8210 Fax: +1.718.362.4865 34 Howard Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013 Email: [email protected] Phone: 646-867-3818 Web: www.monumentreleasing.com Email: [email protected] “We spoke of those times, painful and lamented, when passion is the joy and martyrdom of youth.” — Memoirs From Beyond the Tomb LOGLINE A brilliant young architect puts his seemingly-perfect marriage in jeopardy when he falls for a mysterious woman during a business trip. SHORT SYNOPSIS Luc is a brilliant young architect with a budding reputation. Opinionated, charming, and confident, he lives with his beautiful wife in the stunning countryside of Quebec. Luc’s seemingly-perfect life begins to fall apart, however, when he meets and falls for a mysterious woman during a business trip. Caught in a triangle of emotions, Luc puts everything in jeopardy to pursue his affair, threatening to destroy the life he has built and the woman he loves. TECH SPECS Run Time: 102 min Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Shooting Format: ARRI Alexa Sound: 5.1 Country: Canada Language: French, English STILLS CAST ÉRIC BRUNEAU - Luc Éric has been featured in popular TV shows like Annie et ses hommes, Musée Éden and Tu m’aimes- tu? and Mensonges. He was nominated for the Artis Award for Best Actor in a Quebec TV series for his role of Sylvain Régimbald in Toute la vérité. On stage, he has been in prestigious plays including Christine, la reine- garçon, Equus, Élisabeth, roi d’Angleterre, Un simple sol- dat, Tom à la ferme and Les liaisons dangereuses. He has been in multiple films including Les Etats- Unis d’Albert and Coteau Rouge (A. Forcier), Les pieds dans le vide (M. Woolfe), Gerry (A. Desrochers) and Heartbeats (X. Dolan). MÉLANIE THIERRY - Stéphanie Mélanie had her big screen debut at 18 in The Legend of 1900 and would go on to be in several critically acclaimed films in- cluding 15 August, Chrysalis, Babylon AD, The Princess of Mont- pensier, Unforgivable, Ombline, Comme Des Frères, and For a Woman. She was awarded the César for Most Promising Actress for her performance in One for the Road. She has been nominat- ed for multiple awards on stage, including the Theatrical Rev- elation Molière for her role in Le vieux juif blonde and the Best Actress Molière for Baby Doll. She was most recently in Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem. MELANIE MERKOSKY - Lindsay Melanie has been performing professionally as an actress, sing- er and dancer since the age of twelve in film, television and on stages around the world. She has developed a repertoire of work in the US and Canada, including Runaway for the CW, the American Pie franchise and the award winning Canadian series Slings & Arrows. She has also been a part of notable web series including Lonelygirl15 and Harper’s Globe for CBS. Melanie was nominated for Best Lead Actress in a drama at the International Academy of Web Television Awards for her work in Continuum. She is currently shooting a recurring role on The Strain, the new FX series from Guillermo De Toro. MARIE-JOSÉE CROZE - Isabelle Marie had her first breakout role as the lead in Denis Villeneuve’s Maelstöm. She has gone on to star in critically acclaimed films from world-renowned directors, including Ararat, Tell No One, Je l’aimais, Korkoro, Love Me No More, A View of Love, Munich, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. She won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performance in Denys Arcand’s The Bar- barian Invasions. She recently appeared on stage in Mensonges d’États as well as multiple films including Calvary, The Narrow Frame of Midnight, Every Thing Will Be Fine, and Un illustre inconnu. MATHIEU QUESNEL - Nicolas Mathieu graduated from the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Montreal in 2006. He has been in various stage productions including Au Champ de Mars from Théâtre de la Manufacture, L’Assassinat du président from Théâtre du Futur, L’Obsession de la beauté from Lab87, and Les Flâneurs célestes. On TV, he has been in 30 Vies, La Galère, Tout sur moi, Les Rescapés and Pent- house 5-0. He is also part of the SNL - Québec cast. On screen, he plays the leading role of Eric in Le vrai du faux from director Émile Gaudreault. GENEVIÈVE BOIVIN-ROUSSY - Mélissa An artist painter that holds dear the multidisciplinary aspect of art, Geneviève is a founding member of Les Garçonnes, a com- pany where performing arts, media arts, visual arts, music as well as literature all come together. On television, she can be seen as Gloria O’Hara in the series O’. She has also participated in multiple short films including Chef de meute, which was part of the Official Selection of Short Films at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. On the silver screen, she was in Sarah Prefers to Run, which was selected to Cannes in the Un Certain Regard catego- ry, and the latest Fuica brothers’ movie La Run. CREW DENYS ARCAND Director / Writer Arcand is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer whose career spans four decades. His films are greatly re- nowned in Canada and around the world, having won numer- ous prestigious awards and garnered high critical praise. In 2003, he won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for The Barbarian Invasions, becoming the first Canadian director to win the award. The film also won three Césars (Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director) and Best Screenplay and Best Actress at Cannes. In 2007, his film Days of Darkness was the Official Selection at Cannes for Closing Night. Arcand came to international promnience with his films The Decline of the American Empire (winner of 9 Genie Awards, International Critics’ Prize at Cannes) and Jesus of Montreal (winner of 12 Genie Awards, Jury Prize at Cannes). Both films were also nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Besides his career as a filmmaker, Arcand has published several articles and wrote the book Eucha- riste Moisan. In 2011, he created, with artist Adad Hannah, a 7 minute scene for the 150th Anniversa- ry of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Safari. He will direct his first opera in 2015, Zémire and Azor, with Les Violons du Roy. Arcand is Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (France), de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), Companion of the Order of Canada and Knight of the National Or- der of Quebec. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. DENISE ROBERT Producer President of Cinémaginaire that she founded in 1988 with Daniel Louis, Denise Robert has made her mark in the Quebec and Canadian film industry. She produced numerous world-renowned films, including Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions, which won the Oscar for Best Film in a Foreign Language, three Césars and more than forty other awards around the world; Robert Lepage’s The Confessional, which opened the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes; and Paul Arcand’s Driving to the Edge. She also co-produced the play Les 39 marches, adapted from the novel and film The 39 Steps. She also produced all 3 seasons of Le petit Monde de Laura Cadieux. Denise most recently pro- duced Emile Gaudreault’s film Le vrai du faux and Léa Pool’s documentary Waiting for Mommy. She is also producing a new TV series, La théorie du K.O. Denise is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma (César). Her work was recognized with the grade of Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters given to her by the Minister of Cultural Affairs of France for her influential role in the promotion of French culture throughout the world. She was recognized as Business woman of the Year by Ernst & Young (2003) and also honored as Personality of the Business World by La Presse (2004). DANIEL LOUIS Producer Daniel is an Oscar and Emmy Award winner who has over thirty- four years of experience in the field of cinema and has collaborated on over sixty productions. A Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters (France) and a member of BAFTA, he founded in 1988 the film production company Cinémaginaire with Denise Robert, producing over thirty productions. Daniel Louis is fascinated by the human be- ing and stimulated by originality and artistic creation. NATHALIE MOLIAVKO-VISOTZKY Director of Photography Initiated in her adolescence to New Wave cinema, Nathalie discovered her passion for image an- dlight through John Casavetes’s films. Her first film as a DP (Guylaine Dionne’s Les fantômes des 3 Madeleine) was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2000 (shot on 35mmm black and white!). She was nominated for the Jutra as Best Director of Photography for this film and for Natha- lie Saint- Pierre’s Catimini and Ma voisine dans le ska. She was the second unit DP for Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions. She won the Gémeaux for Best Director of Photography for the series Nos étés. Her latest film, Helen Doyle’s Dans un océan d’images…, won the Best Canadian Film at FIFA 2013. PATRICE BENGLE Production Designer Having worked in the film industry since 1976, Patrice is an art director and a highly talented Visual Designer.