Madame Soleil (Marie Claire Valiquette) just loves to have tea parties,
and she's not very particular about who she has them with even, so pretty
much everybody who stops by her place is invited in, be it the milkman
(Patrice L'Esperance), the paperboy (Justin Robinson) or the girl scout
selling cookies (Nyka L'Esperance) is invited in. Thing is, Madame Soleil
has a certain habit involving a sharp knife her guests might not exactly
appreciate ... Now I won't for one minute state Madame
Soleil's Tea Party is filmmaker Nadine L'Esperance's best movie,
because it isn't, it's an early effort that's neither as over-the-top nor
as refined as her later work ... but it's good, macabre fun, not only
thanks to well-placed gory bits, also thanks to the humourously stilted
French dialogue (a language L'Esperance didn't even speak herself) and the
rather campy performances. No masterpiece, but definitely worth a laugh!
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