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Serge ThériaultGilles RenaudSébastien DelormeDanny Gilmore
DIRECTOR
Louis Bélanger
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Gaz Bar Blues (2003) is a French,English movie. Louis Bélanger has directed this movie. Serge Thériault,Gilles Renaud,Sébastien Delorme,Danny Gilmore are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2003. Gaz Bar Blues (2003) is considered one of the best Drama,Comedy movie in India and around the world.
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Good job Boss!
Could be based on a true story. It's real life drama. The owner of a little independent gas station tries to make life better for his 4 grown-ups. But life's not easy when you have too much of a big heart. Being too good isn't always helpful. I just loved the characters in this film. My favorite one is Mr. Savard, one of the guys who hang out at the gas bar. It's a picture taken of a real life small business in a low income neighborhood of Montréal. Serge Thériault is doing a good job, as usual. Out of 100, I gave it 82. That's good for *** out of ****. Seen in Toronto, at the Royal Cinema, on February 7th, 2004.
An old meeting place revisited...
Gaz Bar Blues is a good movie, maybe with some dull parts on the way but reminescent of how great these "full service" gas stations were in the past... And how the past clash with present realities... The "Boss", Serge Theriault, wants to keep the business going on despite a developping Parkinson disease, threatening competition from Self serve stations and how to transfer his business to his three boys. But there's a problem: one wants to go to Berlin to witness the fall of the Wall (we're in 1989), the other wants to play music and the younger one wants to give a try, despite the fact he's 14... The Gaz Bar is also a meeting place of all kins here, conflicting egos from a quarter-begging tramp to a not-so-stupid blind person, along with a petty thief who uses the gas bar sink as a toilet bowl, a desperate loser who never had a chance with a girl and some wise cracking employees... Add along the cheap customers, the thieves committing hold-ups and the annoying Champlain concession inspector and you got a fine movie here... Well written, a bit long in some parts and excellent acting. Plus reminescence that the story is based in Quebec city (though it was shot in Montreal), we see the old NHL logo of the Nordiques... Fact: Champlain was a real gas bar chain in the past, which was bought later by Imperial Oil (Esso), and used to give Expo 67 drinking glasses with each fill-up ! So enjoy the meeting place !
Honest, moving, and charming - spoilers
Gaz Bar Blues is a Québec film written and directed by Louis Bélanger which won the Special Grand Jury Prize at the Montreal Film Festival. It begins dramatically with the owner of a gas station being held up at gunpoint. That incident is then left incomplete and we are introduced to the owner, "Boss" Brochu, and his family. Brochu is a middle-aged widower who is the manager of a shabby service station somewhere in Québec. He's developed Parkinson's and he needs the help of his three sons to continue in business, but the two older sons have no interest, while the youngest is willing but only 14. The film is set in 1989. Self-service stations are forcing small and marginal service stations out of business, and this one has almost as many robbers as paying customers. It serves mainly as a hang-out for an assortment of oddballs, who gather every day to smoke, joke around, and pass the time. Think of several Cliff Clavens with a Québec accent. Brochu knows the writing is on the wall, but he knows nothing else but work, and seems to think that if he can keep the business going, he can keep his family together. Rejean, however, wants to be a blues musician. He runs off to play his harmonica whenever he can, abandoning the more conventional son, Guy, to cover for him. But even Guy has had enough, and he leaves to photograph Berlin after the fall of the Wall. Eventually, we return to the armed robbery, and see its dramatic denouement. Boss admits the inevitable, and closes the gas bar. He makes peace with Guy and Rejean, and with his illness. This is an honest, moving, and charming film, clearly bearing the imprint of personal experience. The cast, led by popular Québec comedian Serge Thériault as the paterfamilias, is uniformly excellent. At 115 minutes, I would say it runs 10 minutes long. The Berlin episode should have been excised. Mostly, it serves as an excuse for Bélanger to self-indulgently display his own arty photographs, and to make a rather strained analogy between the East Berliners and people like Brochu who are economically obsolete. The subtitles, of the very colloquial working class language of the characters, are generally excellent. However, my companion assured me that the dialogue identifies Boss as 59, whereas the subtitles say 54. Given that he looks about 65, it's a rather significant point.
A compelling, human story!
A charming family drama- Gaz Bar Blues examines the struggles of an independent gas station (Gaz Bar), the family who runs it, and the people who frequent it. Bélanger weaves together the lives of an endearing cast of characters to create a story that reveals honest truths about the human condition. Mr. Brochu's (known as The Boss) struggle with Parkinsons and his son's waning interest in the family business, eldest son Réjean's dissatisfaction with his life at the Gaz Bar, middle brother Guy's dreams of becoming a musician and youngest brother Alain's desire to be seen as as an adult, and many more aspirations you follow the characters working to achieve all form a compelling personal drama. With a supporting cast of unique and equally lovable characters, it is a delightful film that offers a window into Quebecois life.