Une histoire inventée

Une histoire inventée
Directed by	André Forcier
Produced by	Robin Spry Claudio Luca (producer and executive producer) Jamie Brown (executive producer) Louise Abastado (associate producer)
Written by	André Forcier Jacques Marcotte
Starring	Tony Niardi Jean Lapointe Louise Marleau Charlotte Laurier
Music by	Serge Fiori
Cinematography	Georges Dufaux
Editing by	Aube Foglia François Gill
Distributed by	Astral Films
Release date(s)	October 4, 1990 Canada September 6, 1991 Finland January 30, 1992 Germany
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French
Gross revenue	$ 487,809
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Une histoire inventée (English-language title: An Imaginary Tale) is a 1990 Canadian drama film.

[edit] Plot

Toni (Niardi) is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up and paid by the same uncle. Some of them have seen every performance of this tragic play, and are understandably bored, so when the backstage romantic events of the actors result in absurd situations onstage, the audience is delighted. There are a huge number of romantic situations going on in this film at the same time. One of them involves Gaston (Lapointe), a somewhat world-weary jazz musician, and Florence (Marleau), a glamourous middle-aged woman who has been pining for him for years. Another involves to members of the musician's jazz trio. Yet another involves the play's Desdemona, Soledad (Laurier), the girlfriend of the man playing Othello, who can't keep his hands off his dresser. She is also Florence's niece.