Imelda, a larger-than-life character inspired by the director's grandmother, sets herself on a quest to settle old scores before celebrating her 100th birthday.
Jean and André have organized a birthday brunch for their 89 year-old mother, Imelda. But things turn sour when the birthday girl finds out that her gift isn't what she'd been hoping for.
93 year-old Imelda is concerned about her son André's well-being, and wants to spend some extra time with him. Determined to renew her driver's license, she forces him to go on a crazy car ride.
Grandsons Louis and Claude are spending a weekend at Imelda's country place - but things go south when Louis takes one of their grandmother's pills.
With the help of daughter Diane, Imelda brings her dog Pipo to a veterinarian. As Diane digs deeper into her mother's personal life, however, an untold secret from the past resurfaces.
Imelda is now 100 years old, and she knows that the end is near. Her son Jean, a notary, helps her make that final leap from this world to the next.
Through an immigrant cab driver, our world collides with a nervous filmmaker, a lawyer whose new breasts her ex-boyfriend wants to see, a mystery man, a gay man who might or might not have AIDS, and a birthday girl who got stood up. It is a mixture of laughter and sadness, all floating on a sea of philosophy.
A year after the death of his paternal grandmother at the age of 101, filmmaker Martin Villeneuve brings her back to life using a special talent.
Imelda 3 : Simone
Imelda 2: The Notary
The daily lives of the personnel of the St-Vincent hospital in Montréal.