Night Zoo

Un Zoo la Nuit
Film poster
Directed by	Jean-Claude Lauzon
Produced by	Roger Frappier Pierre Gendron
Written by	Jean-Claude Lauzon
Starring	Gilles Maheu Lynne Adams Roger Lebel
Music by	Jean Corriveau
Cinematography	Guy Dufaux
Edited by	Michel Arcand
Distributed by	FilmDallas (US theatrical)
Release dates	May 1987 (1987-05) (Cannes)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French
Box office	1.3 million CAD

Night Zoo (French: Un Zoo la Nuit) is a 1987 Canadian film. It is directed and written by Jean-Claude Lauzon. It made its debut at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[1]

Plot

Marcel (Gilles Maheu) is released from prison, hoping to reconcile with his dying father, Albert (Lebel). Marcel is also harassed by a corrupt gay cop. Marcel returns to his father who reveals that he has money and drugs stashed away for him. Marcel and his gay former cellmate both corner the corrupt cop and get their revenge on him. Julie (Adams) is Marcel's former girlfriend who works in a sex club peep show.

Awards

The film set a record by winning 13 Genie Awards.

Genie Award for Best Motion Picture - Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design - Jean-Baptiste Tard
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography - Guy Dufaux
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design - Andrée Morin
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction - Jean-Claude Lauzon
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing - Michel Arcand
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Overall Sound - Adrian Croll, Hans Peter Strobl, Yvon Benoît
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Sound Editing - Viateur Paiement, Marcel Pothier, Diane Boucher
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Score - Jean Corriveau
Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Song - Jean-Pierre Bonin, Daniel De Shaimes, Jean Corriveau,Robert Stanley For the song "Lost in a Hurricane"
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Roger Lebel
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Germain Houde
Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay - Jean-Claude Lauzon
Montreal World Film Festival Best Canadian Film - Jean-Claude Lauzon
Toronto International Film Festival International Critics' Award - Jean-Claude Lauzon
Flanders International Film Festival Grand Prix - Jean-Claude Lauzon

Nominations

Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Gilles Maheu

Availability

The film was released on videocassette in the United States in 1988 by New World and in Canada that same year by Cinema Plus Video. In 1991, an EP-Mode tape of the film was released by Starmaker Video. After Lauzon was killed in the northern Quebec plane crash in 1997, CBC Television, Télé-Québec and Showcase aired Night Zoo and Léolo in August.^[2] To this day, Night Zoo has never been released on DVD and as of June 28, 2011, no plans have been made to release the film onto DVD.

References

↑ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
↑ Playback Staff, "Industry mourns Lauzon, Tougas," Playback, 25 August 1997, URL accessed 26 August 2016.

External links

Night Zoo at the Internet Movie Database
Un Zoo la Nuit at AllMovie

Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television winners for Best Motion Picture

1940s	The Loon's Necklace (1949)

1950s	North Shore / Mouvement perpétuel (1950) After Prison What? (1951) Newfoundland Scene (1952) Tit-Coq (1953) The Seasons (1954) The Stratford Adventure (1955) Gold (1956) Prelude to Spring (1957) City of Gold (1958) The Quest / Money Minters / The Tall Country (1959)

1960s	Royal River (1960) Universe (1961) Morning on the Lièvre / Au temps des ombres blanches (1962) Lonely Boy (1963) À tout prendre (1964) The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1965) Le Festin des morts (1966) Warrendale (1967) The Ernie Game (1968) The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969)

1970s	Goin' Down the Road (1970) Mon oncle Antoine (1971) Wedding in White (1972) Slipstream (1973) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) Les Ordres (1975) Lies My Father Told Me (1976) J.A. Martin photographe (1977) The Silent Partner (1978)

1980s	The Changeling (1980) Les Bons débarras (1981) Ticket to Heaven (1982) The Grey Fox (1983) The Terry Fox Story (1984) The Bay Boy (1985) My American Cousin (1986) Le Déclin de l'empire américain (1987) Un Zoo la nuit (1988) Dead Ringers (1989)

1990s	Jésus de Montréal (1990) Black Robe (1991) Naked Lunch (1992) Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) Exotica (1994) Le Confessionnal (1995) Lilies (1996) The Sweet Hereafter (1997) The Red Violin (1998) Sunshine (1999)

2000s	Maelström (2000) Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) Ararat (2002) Les Invasions barbares (2003) Les Triplettes de Belleville (2004) C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) Away from Her (2007) Passchendaele (2008) Polytechnique (2009)

2010s	Incendies (2010) Monsieur Lazhar (2011) Rebelle (2012) Gabrielle (2013) Mommy (2014) Room (2015)

Canadian Film Award 1949-1979; Genie Award 1980-2012; Canadian Screen Award 2013-present

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