L.A. Tea Time

Steeped in artistic and personal doubts, director Sophie Bédard Marcotte, accompanied by cinematographer Isabelle Stachtchenko, leaves Montreal for Los Angeles in the hope of meeting American artist and filmmaker Miranda July. This premise quickly becomes a pretext as the film is transformed by the protagonists' wanderings along Route 66. Punctuated by disappointments and unexpected encounters, a true quest for identity shines, reminding us of the importance of the detours that make up our journey. The film embraces the codes of the road movie and autofiction, while iconic American landscapes rub shoulders with the filmmaker's whimsical imagination and subtle humour, illustrating the power of inventive narrative modes in documentary filmmaking. (Laurence Lévesque)

This screening is offered for free as part of Doc-to-doc and will be followed by a discussion with Laurence Lévesques (Okurimono), who programmed the film, and Sophie Bédard Marcotte.

Presented by Télé-Québec

L.A. Tea Time