They say no news is good news, but in this case a little news goes a long way: Chicoutimi-based filmmaker Sébastien Pilote appears to be gearing up for his next project, once again with his muse Gabriel Arcand. In a friendly chat promoting the recent 30th anniversary edition of festival REGARD, Pilote mentioned he is outlining a new film project that feels like the old guard at life’s apogee.
A film that sounds tonally closer to his first pair of films, this is about a theatre critic who loses his job, regresses and has a chip on his shoulder. Pilote’s feature debut Le Vendeur was selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and his sophomore feature in 2013’s Le Démantèlement was a Cannes Critic’s Week selection. He followed that up by 2018’s La disparition des lucioles and 2021’s Maria Chapdelaine were both selected for TIFF.
