Little Aurore, the Child Martyr

[Bakunin]

Its a quebec movie based on a true story in theater since july 8th. When i say based, i guess we can say the movie is really construct just like it happend but like always, we can't say evrything in 2 hours.

Its a murder case that is well know, a bit like quebec version of Homolka and bernardo.

Its a mother that beat one of her children, she beat her really hard on a regular basis and the children end up dying because of it. Its in 1920 in a small town and we can see the citizens of the town gossip but nobody really want to interfere and when they finally do interfere, its too late.

Im talking about this movie because its prolly gonna be the biggest canadian movie hit this year even if english canada prolly won't ever see or hear about it :/

I know it will be sub-titled... If ever you have a chance to see it, go see it for god sake you won't regret it even if its with sub-title. Cause its the kind of movie that could easily be nominated in Canne or for the foreign movie Oscars. One thing is sure is that it will be the movie winning half of the Genie award this year

And a friend gave me the adress of a website on the Aurore story:

http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/gagn...oude/138en.html

I could explain the story more but there is an easyer way to understand..., here is a quote from aurore sister (12years old) trial to have a sneak peak of the story im warning you guys its horrible:

(Q= question at the trial)

(A= sister's answer)

Q. Would she beat her often?

A. Yes, she beat her often.

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Q. So, where would she beat her? Where would she hit her?

A. She hit her two or three (2-3) times on the head that I was aware of.

Q. Did she hit her hard or lightly?

A. She hit her hard enough to make her head swell up.

Q. Now, after having hit her on the head, did she hit her elsewhere?

A. Yes, on her knees.

Q. How would she hit her on her knees?

A. She hit her with a piece of wood and her knees swelled up. That's what hurt her knee so badly.

Q. What would your little sister do while she was being beaten like that?

A. She would scream. She said that if she screamed, she'd get hit some more. She said that if she screamed, she'd get hit some more.

Q. Now, Mademoiselle, you spoke.... If I understood correctly, you said your mother had burned her?

A. Yes.

....

What would your little sister do while she was being burned like that?

A. She would scream. She would scream and once she gagged her with a

leather strap.

Q. You're saying she did what to her?

A. She gagged her with a leather strap.

Q. Would you please look at the leather strap I'm showing you and say whether you have ever seen it before?

A. Yes.

Q. Where have you seen it?

A. She tied her.... She gagged her with that leather strap.

Q. (Produced as Exhibit P14). Would you please look at this damper and the lid lifter and the damper [sic] and say whether you have ever seen it [sic] before?

A. Yes, she would burn her fingers with that.

Q. You saw that, Mademoiselle?

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A. Yes.

Q. You're certain of it?

A. Yes.

Q. Did you see her heat up the poker?

A. Yes.

Q. Do you know if it was very hot when she burned her?

A. Oh yes. It was red.

Q. So what would happen? Did you notice anything?

A. She screamed. I noticed that she was screaming. My little sister was screaming while she burned her.

Q. Could you smell anything in the room?

A. Yes.

Q. What?

A. It smelled.... She would only stop burning her when the house smelled strongly of something burning, of burnt skin.

Q. So where would she burn her?

A. She burned her all over.

Q. All over? Where?

A. On her legs, on her feet, on her thighs.

Q. Now, did you see your little sister before she died?

A. Yes.

....

Q. Now, did you see your little sister on the morning of the day she died?

A. Yes.

Q. So, where did you see her?

A. She was upstairs. Then afterward Papa left to go work. Maman went upstairs. She said, "That cow won't stay in bed all day."

Q. Did you go up with you [sic]?

A. No, she came downstairs and Maman went upstairs all alone....

Q. Do you know what happened upstairs?

A. No. Nothing happened upstairs.

Q. Did she speak to your little sister?

A. Yes, she spoke to my little sister.

Q. Did you hear her?

A. Yes.

Q. What did she say?

A. She was telling her to get up. She said, "You'd better go downstairs if you don't want me to throw you down [from] the top of the stairs."

Q. In what condition was your sister at the time?

A. She could barely hold herself up alone anymore.

Q. Can you tell us what happened after that?

A. What happened after that.... She went downstairs. She fell against the stove and Maman....

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Q. Why did she fall against the stove like that?

A. She was too weak.

Q. She collapsed there?

A. Yes.

Q. What happened?

A. Maman took the pitchfork handle...

Q. Would you please look at this pitchfork handle here?

A. Yes.

Q. And tell us whether it's the one?

A. Yes, that's the one.

Q. And then?

A. She hit her three (3) times. She then collapsed completely.

Its totally horrible... even more because its a 12 years old little girl saying this at the trial....

[kimmy]

Its a quebec movie based on a true story in theater since july 8th. When i say based, i guess we can say the movie is really construct just like it happend but like always, we can't say evrything in 2 hours.

It sounds very intense and quite horrifying. I'm not sure I could bring myself to see something that sounds so bleak.

Im talking about this movie because its prolly gonna be the biggest canadian movie hit this year even if english canada prolly won't ever see or hear about it :/

I am sure you're right about this. Not that I can vouch for Aurore being a good movie, it's just that I have rock-solid confidence in English-Canada's film industry. Whatever films English Canada comes up with this year are guaranteed to be lame and seen by almost no one. Most recently, at least in Sheila Copps' final days as Heritage and Culture Czar, they seem to have given up trying to make movies that are uniquely "Canadian," and simply produce Canadian-made rip-offs of successful American movies.

College-guy loses girl and has to drive across the country to win her back, having zany misadventures along the way? Woo-hoo! It's a

third-rate Canadianized version of Road Trip!

Evil blondes from space arrive on campus and seduce people to use as snack-food? Woo-hoo! It's a third-rate Canadianized version of Species!

(The theory seems to be that adding Boobies to Canadian films will help them catch up with their US competitors.)

It seems as though if there's any creativity to be found in Canada's film industry, it comes from Quebec. English Canada's film industry has been wildly successful in providing settings and facilities and even actors for visiting American productions, but rather shoddy at creating anything of its own.

-k

[Bakunin]

It sounds very intense and quite horrifying. I'm not sure I could bring myself to see something that sounds so bleak.

Its not a horror movie but it is clearly a sad story. There is a scene in particular, a scene that touched me alot, i will remember it all my life. We see the 10 years old little girl, half dead sleeping on a really dirty floor. Blood on her nose, all her corpse burned and wounded evrywhere on her arms and legs.. evry inch of her corpse was wounded, Then the sun light come from the windows, we see a dove comming from the windows and land next to her hand, see try to get up with her arms but the light fade and the dove dissapear then she lie down. It wasn't a crappy movie with wound looking like fake. It was such realistic.. it was frightning.

I am sure you're right about this.  Not that I can vouch for Aurore being a good movie, it's just that I have rock-solid confidence in English-Canada's film industry.  Whatever films English Canada comes up with this year are guaranteed to be lame and seen by almost no one.  Most recently, at least in Sheila Copps' final days as Heritage and Culture Czar, they seem to have given up trying to make movies that are uniquely "Canadian," and simply produce Canadian-made rip-offs of successful American movies.

College-guy loses girl and has to drive across the country to win her back, having zany misadventures along the way? Woo-hoo! It's a

third-rate Canadianized version of Road Trip!

Evil blondes from space arrive on campus and seduce people to use as snack-food? Woo-hoo! It's a third-rate Canadianized version of Species!

(The theory seems to be that adding Boobies to Canadian films will help them catch up with their US competitors.)

It seems as though if there's any creativity to be found in Canada's film industry, it comes from Quebec.   English Canada's film industry has been wildly successful in providing settings and facilities and even actors for visiting American productions, but  rather shoddy at creating anything of its own.

Im really happy because like 3-4 years ago, quebeckers where not interested in quebec movie, then we had an exceptional year with "the barbarian invasion" who won the foreign movie Oscar and lots of award evrywhere on the globe and since that, the industry is such sucessfull, now even the american movies have a hard time to compete quebec movies. in 5 more years, we will have an even stronger movie industry, and maybe an international market who knows ?

Just look at the top 5 box office for this week.

#1 Aurore 953 708 $

#2 Fantastic Four 767 372 $

#3 War of the worlds 540 719 $

#4 C.R.A.Z.Y. 176 172 $

#5 Batman begins 169 186 $

2 out of 5 are from quebec and i saw both and they where both great. They will both get 1 or more genie awards im sure.

We only have 1 problem, its hard to export sub-titled movies. They tryed to export "the barbarian invasion" in usa but it wasn't a succes. So we can only rely on the worldwide french comunity.

In english canada, if your a successfull actor or movie maker 99,9% of the time, you move to the united states, i think thats what is making english canada unable to create its own movie industry.

The american movie industry is really strong, they produce lots of movie. they produce most of the movie in the world and im sure its the basement of what became the american society because since their worldwide movies are selling to the rest of the world the american: culture, value, way of life, and thinking. Its really easy for them to become the #1 attraction in the world. After such a promotion of the usa, no wonder evry skilled immigrants, business dealers, artists want to go there...

Without the american movie and music industy, their is no american way of life.

In quebec and prolly in the rest of the world too, ppl are getting tired of american movies. I read somewhere that the american movie are facing a crisis, they are slowly losing their share a bit evrywhere in the world. Im a big movie fan, 4 year ago i was listening only american movie, now i think less than 50% of the movie i see are american and i must admit, most of the time im really disapointed. "War of the world" is a sample... ive never seen such a bad speilberg movie in my life except "jurasic park 3" of course :/ . I saw a german movie a few month ago, a really good movie about hitler last week before he commited a suicide. It was a terrific. Im starting to watch korean and asian movies, im now a fan of the france movie industry, i like the german movies and i even saw a south american movie. It is such more exciting to so a foreign movie than see the old american (good vs bad) hollywood movie. Im not saying all american movie are bad but alot are not interesting to watch anymore, alot are only based on commercial viability and using the same old hollywood formula... There is a small american elite movie maker that are very interesting though in other country, only the elite can survive.

[mirror]

When I lived in Toronto there was a video rental store that only had foreign films. I rarely rented videos from any place else.

Yes Hollywood is in crisis at the movie theatres at least - partly to do with the overpriced snack bars, but mainly the quality of the movies, although I do like some American stuff like what comes out of Sundance.

[Bakunin]

When I lived in Toronto there was a video rental store that only had foreign films. I rarely rented videos from any place else.

Yes Hollywood is in crisis at the movie theatres at least - partly to do with the overpriced snack bars, but mainly the quality of the movies, although I do like some American stuff like what comes out of Sundance.

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There are alot of movie maker in america that lack of skill, in any other country, they wouldn't be able to finance their movies. Usa does have good movie maker and makes most of the best movie but the people are getting tired of the american formula.

Even a talented movie maker like Spielberg just made prolly the worst movie of his career this year with "War of the world".