Polygraph () is a film by Canadian director Robert Lepage, released in 1996.Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 171.
The film stars Marie Brassard as Lucie Champagne, an actress who is given the role of Marie-Claire in a film dramatizing a real-life murder, and Patrick Goyette as François, Lucie's former boyfriend who was Marie-Claire's neighbour, remains a suspect in the real crime to the point that even he is no longer fully convinced that he is innocent, and is being pressured to play the killer in the film.John Griffin, "Polygraphe: where truth and lies meet". Montreal Gazette, November 16, 1996. The film's cast also includes Josée Deschênes, Maria de Medeiros, Peter Stormare, Marie-Christine Lê-Huu and Richard Fréchette.
The film was inspired in part by the 1979 murder of France Lachapelle, an actress in Quebec City who had been a friend and colleague of Lepage's, with the result that Lepage discovered her body and was actually the police investigator's initial suspect before being cleared,David Lawrence Pike, Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World. University of Toronto Press, 2012. . p, 166. and filmmaker Yves Simoneau's subsequent request that Lepage play the killer in Red Eyes (Les Yeux rouges), his 1982 film dramatizing the incident.Gary Michael Dault, "Robert Lepage's Le Confessionnal & Le Polygraphe". Take One, Spring 1997.
Awards
Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Genie Awards 17th Genie AwardsBest Motion PicturePhilippe Carcassonne, Bruno Jobin, Jean-Pierre St-Michel, Ulrich Felsberg Christopher Harris, "Greyson's Lilies leads Genie field Film with all-male cast gets 14 nominations". The Globe and Mail, October 17, 1996.Best DirectorRobert LepageBest ActressMarie Brassard Best Supporting ActressJosée DeschênesMaria de MedeirosBest Adapted ScreenplayRobert Lepage, Marie BrassardBest CinematographyGuy DufauxOverall SoundJo Caron, Claude Hazanavicius, Hans Peter Strobl, John NestorowichSound EditingJean-Pierre Pinard, Jérôme Décarie, Serge Fortin, Raymond Vermette, Mario Rodrigue, Jacques Plante
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