Les Etats-Unis D´Albert
(The United States of Albert / Los Estados Unidos de Albert) Press Release - April 13, 2004
Special thanks to Mr. Barroso
and Ana Maria of Roy Dupuis
Argentina for providing
the press release and pictures.
Also to Maria/loveroy for translating the press release from Spanish.
The famous film director Marc-André Forcier ended the filming of scenes
for his new cinematographic production "The United States of Albert"
in San Luis Rio Colorado. The film tells of the adventures of Albert Renaud, played
by Eric Brunneau, a 25 year old actor seeking love and Hollywood fame.
Albert
Renaud's exploits begin in 1926 in Montreal Canada when he decides to travel
to Hollywood inspired by the movie "The Shiek" with Rudolph Valentine.
Albert who is obsessed with playing heroes, carries in his inexpensive and empty
luggage a 'Sheik' costume and a letter of reference written by his former acting
teacher in Montreal Jane Pickford. She is an aunt to the famous actress Mary
Pickford who together with Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith
founded United Artists.
While the train is crossing the desert Albert meets Jack Dekke, played by Roy
Dupuis, a unique golfer who golfs at night and guides his shots with perfumed
golf balls.
In
his train travels Albert also meets a young and attractive militant Mormon named
Grace Carson, played by Emilie Dequienne who won an award in Cannes. Grace believes,
with a hint of irony (as revealed in the original screenplay), that the response
to the Polygamy practiced by the Mormons is Polyandry, to have multiple husbands.
They fall in love. Albert, who is still dreaming of playing great heroes and
through an unprovoked event at a train station becomes himself a hero when he
finishes-off the greatest serial killer in California, worst than Jack the Ripper.
In the middle of the desert they find the Asthma Hotel, a hospital/residency
for the treatment of asthmatic patients. In front of the hospital and on the
top of a post sits find an Arc where Noah is trying to break a singular record
of spending the most days on a pole without coming down to the ground. It is
in this place that Albert reunites with Grace and they consummate their love.
Les
Etats Unis d´Albert was submitted to Telefilm Canadá in several
occasions but the financing was secured only when the screen play was presented
in French, the official language of the province of Québec where Albert
Renaud's adventures begin.
In the filmed locations of San Luis Rio Colorado and Los Algodones, Baja California,
Céline Bonnier played Hanna and Mark Krosnoff played Noah; as well as
numerous extras from the area that were hired in San Luis Rio Colorado by the
extras' Casting Director Efraín Lomeli.
The Director and his wife Linda Pinet, co-author of the screenplay thanked
all those who made up the Rosarito, Tijuana film crew, as well as to the locals,
for their interest and participation in the production of the film.
The development of the production of the film was concluded without further
difficulties, except for some rain and wind that dictated the changes in the
order in which scenes were filmed and forced them to take a day off prior to
when it had been scheduled.
Albert
Renaud's exploits begin in 1926 in Montreal Canada when he decides to travel
to Hollywood inspired by the movie "The Shiek" with Rudolph Valentine.
Albert who is obsessed with playing heroes, carries in his inexpensive and empty
luggage a 'Sheik' costume and a letter of reference written by his former acting
teacher in Montreal Jane Pickford. She is an aunt to the famous actress Mary
Pickford who together with Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith
founded United Artists. 
