MIDNIGHT AT THE PARADISE

By Vanessa MATSUI

UPSTART INK/FILM ASSOCIATES - as CONS

Female director - Completed 2022

Over the course of one evening, three couples on a collision course explore what love, death, desire and the magic of movies mean to them.

Festivals
& Awards

Whistler 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Female director, First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Vanessa MATSUI
    • Writer(s)
    • Bill ROBERTSON
    • Producer(s)
    • Bill ROBERTSON
    • Synopsis
    • When they were teenagers, Iris (Liane Balaban) and Alex (Allan Hawco) went to see the sexy 1960 French classic 'Breathless' and fell in love. But life had other plans. Twenty years later, Iris is married to a workaholic doctor, stressed out by motherhood and caring for her dying, self-centered film critic father, Max (Kenneth Welsh). Tonight she has scheduled a screening of 'Breathless' at the rundown Paradise Cinema in Max's honor, and on a whim invites Alex. But when Alex shows up with his fiancée in tow, Iris's world is turned upside down and the two ex-lovers spend the evening contemplating the past and plotting a future together.