Lilies / Les Feluettes (1996 / English / Canada) DVD5

title: Lilies / Les Feluettes

studio: Wolfe

year: 1996

country: Canada

language: English or French, no subtitles

director: John Greyson; who also made The Making of Monsters (1991), Urinal (1991), Zero Patience (1993), Uncut (1997), Proteus (2003) and a number of episodes in Season 1 and 2 of the North American version of Queer as folk.

writer: Michel Marc Bouchard, who also wrote the original play of the same name, and has a bit part as the photographer.

caste:
- Ian D. Clark - Chaplain/Father Saint Michel
- Marcel Sabourin - The Bishop
- Aubert Pallascio - Older Simon
- Jason Cadieux - Young Simon
- Danny Gilmore - Vallier
- Matthew Ferguson - Young Bilodeau
- Brent Carver - Countess De Tilly
- Rémy Girard - The Baroness
- Robert Lalonde - The Baron
- Gary Farmer - Timothée
- Alexander Chapman - Lydie-Anne
- John Dunn-Hill - Warden
- Paul-Patrice Charbonneau - The Chauffeur
- Michel Marc Bouchard - The Photographer
- Khanh Hua - Prison Ensemble

description: Lilies is an emotionally intense, suspense-laden tale of love, betrayal and revenge. In 1952 a Catholic bishop makes an exceptional visit to a prison to hear a dying inmate's confession. Once inside the chapel, the bishop is taken hostage by Simon, a childhood friend. With the aid of his fellow inmates, Simon's version of the events that took place forty years earlier are reenacted. The action moves seamlessly through time between the crude prison and the actual events of 1912. The drama culminates on the tragic night when both men's fates were decided.

This would have to be one of the best Gay Films ever made, and its bewildering why it never received a wider circulation than it did, mainly around the festival circuit. I have included some articles about the film, covers and a separate iso of the sound track in the download. If you haven't already seen the film, don't read any of the articles until after you have, some of them contain plot spoilers.