5. Tu Dors Nicole
Almost certainly the least-seen movie on this list so far, including the ones that haven’t yet opened. The story of the titular Nicole (Julianne Côte), who spends a long, languid, sleepless summer in her parents’ house, sharing with her brother (Marc-André Grondin) and his band. Director Stéphane Lafleur has a rare facility for finding visual poetry in comedy, and comedy in visual poetry, and there’s an undertone of melancholy that boils over towards the end in a genuinely moving manner. Some might dismiss it as minor, but this is a film where the almost Lubitschian lightness of touch only elevates it further.