La Femme de lhôtel

Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De LHotel is a female filmmaker one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by Swissborn director Lea Pool is autobiographical Paule Baillargeon portrays a wellknown director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a highbudget musical drama At her hotel Paule has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman Louise Marleau This element of the plot is briefly forgotten as we get to know the actors in Paules current project Then she meets the old lady again and with mounting incredulity Paule discovers that the actual events in the womans life mirror the fictional events in the directors film