Polygraph (film)

Polygraph
French	Le Polygraphe
Directed by	Robert Lepage
Written by	Marie Brassard Patrick Goyette Robert Lepage Michael Mackenzie
Produced by	Philippe Carcassonne Ulrich Felsberg Madeleine Henrié Bruno Jobin Jean-Pierre St-Michel
Starring	Marie Brassard Patrick Goyette Peter Stormare Maria de Medeiros
Cinematography	Guy Dufaux
Edited by	Jean-François Bergeron Emmanuelle Castro
Music by	Robert Caux Pierre Marchand
Production companies	In Extremis Images Cinéa
Distributed by	Ciné 360
Release date	1996 (1996)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Polygraph (French: Le Polygraphe) is a film by Canadian director Robert Lepage, released in 1996.^[1]

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.^[2] 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,^[3] and filmmaker Yves Simoneau's subsequent request that Lepage play the killer in Red Eyes (Les Yeux rouges), his 1982 film dramatizing the incident.^[4]

Awards

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
Genie Awards	17th Genie Awards	Best Motion Picture	Philippe Carcassonne, Bruno Jobin, Jean-Pierre St-Michel, Ulrich Felsberg	Nominated	[5]
		Best Director	Robert Lepage	Nominated
		Best Actress	Marie Brassard	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress	Josée Deschênes	Nominated
			Maria de Medeiros	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Robert Lepage, Marie Brassard	Nominated
		Best Cinematography	Guy Dufaux	Nominated
		Overall Sound	Jo Caron, Claude Hazanavicius, Hans Peter Strobl, John Nestorowich	Nominated
		Sound Editing	Jean-Pierre Pinard, Jérôme Décarie, Serge Fortin, Raymond Vermette, Mario Rodrigue, Jacques Plante	Nominated

References

1. Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 171.
2. John Griffin, "Polygraphe: where truth and lies meet". Montreal Gazette, November 16, 1996.
3. David Lawrence Pike, Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World. University of Toronto Press, 2012. ISBN 9781442612402. p, 166.
4. Gary Michael Dault, "Robert Lepage's Le Confessionnal & Le Polygraphe". Take One, Spring 1997.
5. Christopher Harris, "Greyson's Lilies leads Genie field Film with all-male cast gets 14 nominations". The Globe and Mail, October 17, 1996.

External links

• Polygraph at IMDb
• Polygraph at Rotten Tomatoes