Linda Gaboriau

Film Lilies (1996) yang dibintangi Marcel Sabourin, Aubert Pallascio, dan Matthew Ferguson ini menghadirkan cerita yang unik dengan gaya penceritaan berlapis. Berlatar di sebuah penjara di Quebec pada tahun 1952, kisahnya dimulai ketika Jean Bilodeau, seorang uskup, dipanggil untuk mendengar pengakuan dosa dari seorang narapidana yang sekarat bernama Simon Doucet. Namun, alih-alih langsung mengaku dosa, Simon punya rencana lain.

It’s that time again: a round-up of the award-winning Canadian books of the year! And here is my usual caveat about how awards don’t always offer a full picture of what is worthy of recognition in Can lit. I should also note that Canadian Margaret Atwood was a co-winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Testaments, the sequel to her bestselling novel The Handmaid’s Tale. The other co-winner was British author Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. It was…a bit of a mess.

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. The inmates force the prelate to watch a play depicting what really happened in 1912. We meet him as a young man, strait-laced, intent on convincing Simon (now the convict) to join the seminary with him.