The United States of Albert ( French: Les États-Unis d'Albert) is a Canadian, French and Swiss co-produced comedy-drama film, directed by André Forcier and released in 2005. ^[1] The film stars Éric Bruneau as Albert Renaud, a young actor in Montreal who dreams of becoming a movie star in Hollywood, and sets off on a road trip across the United States in pursuit of his dreams; en route, he meets a variety of characters including Grace Carson ( Émilie Dequenne), a young Mormon woman with whom he falls in love, and Jack Decker ( Roy Dupuis), a mentally unstable man who takes Albert golfing in the Arizona desert. ^[2]

Cast

• Éric Bruneau : Albert Renaud
• Émilie Dequenne : Grace Carson
• Andréa Ferréol : Jane Pickford
• Roy Dupuis : Jack Decker
• Laurent Deshusses : Peter Malone
• Alex Descas : Nolton Barnett
• Patricia Ubeda : Maria Romero
• Marc Labrèche : Simon
• Céline Bonnier : Hannah Steinway

Reception

Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette panned the film, writing that Forcier's decision to cast a mixture of Québécois and European actors resulted in a distracting diversity of accents and that it strained credulity that the American characters Albert met on his trip would all be able to speak French. ^[2]

Gilles Aird received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Art Direction at the 8th Jutra Awards in 2006. ^[3] The film was a Lumières Award nominee for Best French-Language Film at the 12th Lumières Awards in 2007.

References

External links

• The United States of Albert at IMDb

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