Lilies

Jean Genet Lite, from the same Canadian video-artist turned filmmaker who dared to make a musical about AIDS, the blackly comic ZERO PATIENCE. Adapted by playwright Michel Marc Bouchard from his own Les Fleurettes, this lush melodrama opens in 1952, as elderly Bishop Bilodeau (Marcel Sanbourin) is lured to a federal prison to hear the confession of dying prisoner Simon (Aubert Pallascio). The hitch is that Simon isn't dying at all, and that he, the prison chaplain (Ian D. Clark) and a motley group of cons have conspired to force the bishop to confess and confront his own secret past. In the present day, the ragtag prisoners stage a crude reenactment of the 4...