Le vendeur

Marcel Lévesque, un habile et facétieux vendeur d’automobiles en fin de carrière ne vit que pour trois choses : son travail, sa fille unique Maryse, et son petit-fils Antoine. Il est le meilleur vendeur du mois depuis des années chez le concessionnaire où il a passé sa vie, dans une petite ville mono-industrielle en déclin. Durant un hiver qui n’en finit plus, et pendant que l’usine de pâtes et papiers vit une autre fermeture temporaire, Marcel Lévesque ne pense qu’à sortir ses américaines chéries de la cour enneigée. Un jour, le vendeur fait la rencontre de François Paradis, un travailleur de l’usine au chômage… Un film qui parle de l’homme aliéné, de culpabilité, de religion et de vente automobile.

Marcel Lévesque (Gilbert Sicotte) is a car salesman who operates by the rules of a bygone era. Famous for his sweet talk he has lived to become an endangered species, the salesman who learned his craft by telling stories, or “fibs covered with flowers,” as he might say. He knows how to turn on the charm to make his quota and he has been the best seller of the month for over 16 years. But the increasing decline of his fading industrial town threatens to plummet this peddler of dreams into an unfriendly reality and the end of his career, yet he lives for his next sale.

Shot in the Saguenay region of Québec on a budget of less than 3-million dollars, Le vendeur is the first feature-length film for writer-director Sébastien Pilote. The film was selected to screen in the World Drama competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.