Pascale Bussières Filmography

Born:: June 27, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: An actress whose performances combine understated passion with carefully modulated intensity, Pascale Bussières is one of the most compelling -- and most steadily employed -- members of the French Canadian and Canadian film industries. Thirteen years after she was born in Québec on June 27, 1968...Read More

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Afterwards

Actors: John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly, Romain Duris, Pascale Bussières, Reece Daniel Thompson

2008
The Blue Butterfly

Actors: William Hurt, Pascale Bussières, Marc Donato, Steve Adams, Raoul Trujillo

Synopsis: The true-life quest of a terminally-ill ten-year-old boy who longs to capture the most beautiful butterfly on the planet comes to life on the screen in a touching drama directed by Léa Pool and starring Academy Award-winner William Hurt. In order to appreciate life to its fullest, an ageing Read More

2004
Ma vie en Cinemascope

Actors: Pascale Bussières

2004
Petites Coupures

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier, Pascale Bussières, Catherine Mouchet

Synopsis: Pascal Bonitzer's heavily plotted comedy Petites Coupures (Small Cuts) opens with journalist Bruno (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife, Gaelle (Emmanuelle Devos), having it out over his affair with Nathalie (Ludivine Sagnier). After an invitation from Bruno's uncle Gerard (Jean Yanne), Bruno and Read More

2003
La Turbulence Des Fluides

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Julie Gayet, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Geneviève Bujold, Vincent Bilodeau

Synopsis: A scientist living in Tokyo is sent to a small Canadian town to study the tides in this visually inventive feature from director Manon Briand. Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice (Pascale Bussieres) arrives in her hometown of Read More

2002
La Repetition

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Pascale Bussières, Dani Levy, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Sami Bouajila

Synopsis: Friendship turns to love, and unrequited love leads to a dangerous obsession in this moody drama. Nathalie (Emmanuelle Beart) and Louise (Pascale Bussieres) grew up together and had been close friends since childhood, but while both were studying drama in their early twenties, their friendship Read More

2001
Between the Moon and Montevideo

Actors: Attila Bertalan, Pascale Bussières

Synopsis: In this offbeat mixture of sci-fi and film noir influences, Tobi (Attila Bertalan), who is a junk dealer and small-time hustler stranded on a dying planet of losers and cast-offs, is desperate to leave and find a better life on Earth. Tobi has learned that a gang of Russian émigrés can arrange Read More

2001
Girls Can't Swim

Actors: Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx, Pascale Bussières, Pascal Elso

Synopsis: French filmmaker Anne-Sophie Birot makes her writing and directing debut with the coming-of-age drama Les Filles Ne Savent Pas Nager, given the unfortunate English title Girls Can't Swim. Every year, Gwen (Isild Le Besco) meets up with her best friend Lise (Karen Alyx) for a summer on the beach in Read More

10/18/00
The Five Senses

Actors: Mary-Louise Parker, Philippe Volter, Gabrielle Rose, Daniel MacIvor, Nadia Litz

Synopsis: Five characters serve as metaphors for the five senses in this drama about human relationships from Canadian filmmaker Jeremy Podeswa. Ruth (Gabrielle Rose) works as a massage therapist; one day while giving a rubdown to Anna (Molly Parker), Ruth's teenage daughter Rachel (Nadia Litz) takes Anna's Read More

7/14/00
Emporte-Moi

Actors: Karine Vanasse, Alexandre Merineau, Pascale Bussières, Miki Manojlovic, Charlotte Christeler

Synopsis: Swiss born Léa Pool, who settled in Montreal, Quebec in 1975, set her sixth feature film, Emporte-Moi, in Mile's End, Montreal's working class district, in the year 1963. Hanna is a thirteen-year-old girl who is mesmerized by Anna Karina's portrayal of Nana S. in Jean-Luc Godard's film Vivre sa Vie Read More

3/10/00
La Beauté de Pandore

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Maude Guerin, Gary Boudreault, Pascale Montpetit

Synopsis: Director Charles Biname rounds out his trilogy of Canadian urban malaise films (Eldorado and Le coeur au poing being the first two works) with this film about a one night stand gone horribly, horribly wrong. Not long after Vincent (Jean-Francois Casabonne) meets the vivacious Pandore (Pascale Bussieres Read More

2000
La Bouteille

Actors: Francois Papineau, Jean LaPointe, Helene Loiselle, Pascale Bussières

2000
Souvenirs Intimes

Actors: James Hyndman, Pascale Bussières, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Yves Jacques, Louise Portal

Synopsis: In this French Canadian drama, a man going through some difficult life experiences find things become even more complicated when his ex re-enters his life. Max (James Hyndman) is an artist who has lost the use of his legs and is confined to a wheelchair. Fortunately, he still has many close Read More

1999
L'Age De Braise

Actors: Annie Girardot, France Castel, Michel Ghorayeb, Sheila Rose, Domini Blythe

Synopsis: Jacques Leduc directed and co-scripted (with Jacques Marcotte) this Canadian-French co-production, a drama about an aging Montreal woman, Caroline (Annie Girardot), in her 60s and contemplating impending death. She destroys old correspondence, cleans her apartment by putting furniture in the Read More

7/29/98
Le Coeur Au Poing

Actors: Pascale Montpetit, Guy Nadon, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Guylaine Tremblay, Rita Lafontaine

Synopsis: Montreal director Charles Biname (Eldorado) and novelist Monique Proulx used actor improvs as a basis for this screenplay look at life in Montreal. Unhappy Louise (Pascale Montpetit) can't connect with her career-minded sister Paulette (Anne-Marie Cadieux). To make matters worse, her lover Julien (Guy Nadon Read More

1998
Un 32 Aout Sur Terre

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Alexis Martin, Richard Hamilton, Serge Theriault, Emmanuel Bilodeau

Synopsis: Music-video director Denis Villeneuve made his feature directorial debut with this Canadian drama about an auto accident aftermath. When Simone (Pascale Bussieres) nods off at the wheel, her car goes out of control. She escapes any serious physical injury, but her life changes direction Read More

1998
Honeymoon

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Blake Boyd, Thomas Cavanaugh

1998
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Nigel Whitmey, Shelley Duvall, Frank Gorshin, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love's darker aspects. After years of incarceration as a political prisoner, Peter Glahn (Nigel Whitney, who had his name removed from the credits because another actor redubbed his lines) finally returns to Read More

1997
Waiting for Twilight

Actors: Guy Maddin, Tom Waits, Paul Cox, Pascale Bussières, Frank Gorshin, Alice Krige, Shelley Duvall

Synopsis: Tom Waits narrates this documentary about Manitoba filmmaker Guy Maddin (Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Archangel), seen directing Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. Stills, clips, and home movies are combined with talking-head interviews with friends, actors, and co-workers, tracing the Read More

1997
The Whole of the Moon

Synopsis: Two young New Zealand cancer patients attempt to cope with their illness and the painful chemotherapy treatments in this upbeat drama. Kirk Mead is only 15 when doctors discover a cancerous tumor on his leg following a rollerblading accident. Both he and his family are understandably upset as he Read More

1996
Thunder Point

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, James Kidnie, Pascale Bussières, Cedric Smith, Chris Wiggins

Synopsis: Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans that could destroy all of Europe. Dillon's assignment is to protect her until the plans can be properly destroyed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
When Night Is Falling

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny, David Fox, Tracy Wright

Synopsis: This Canadian drama tells the tale of Camille, who works at an uptight Protestant college as a professor of mythology. She has been going out with career theologian Martin for three years, but it appears her real true love is her dog, Bob. Bob dies in a tragic car accident and poor Camille is Read More

1995
Eldorado

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching Read More

1995
Deux Actrices

Actors: Pascale Bussières

Synopsis: A grown woman, Solange (Pascale Bussieres) reacts with entirely understandable skepticism when Fabienne (Pascale Parouissien), a disreputable-looking woman she has never met, arrives at her doorstep and announces that she is her older sister. The first time this happens, she closes the door in her Read More

1993
La Vie Fantome

Actors: Ron Lea, Pascale Bussières, Johanne-Marie Tremblay

Synopsis: Pierre is in love with two women and has a stable relationship with both of them. His wife, all by herself, makes him feel whole. However, he has the identical feeling with his librarian mistress and cannot understand why this arrangement shouldn't be satisfactory for everyone concerned. ~ Clarke Read More

1992
Sonatine

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Marcia Pilote, Pierre Fauteux, Kliment Dentchev

Synopsis: This poignant human drama is phrased as a "small sonata" in three movements -- a novel approach by director and writer Micheline Lactôt to tell the story of two teenage girls. In the first movement, Chantal (Pascale Bussieres) rides the same bus every day and slowly develops an infatuation with Read More

1984