| Dream Life | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Mireille Dansereau |
| Producer: | Guy Bergeron |
| Starring: | Liliane Lemaître-Auger Véronique Le Flaguais |
| Music: | Emmanuel Charpentier |
| Cinematography: | Louis de Ernsted François Gill Richard Rodrigue |
| Editing: | Danielle Gagné |
| Studio: | ACPAV |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French |
Dream Life (fr|La Vie rêvée) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Mireille Dansereau and released in 1972.[1] The first narrative fiction feature film from Quebec to be directed by a woman,[2] the film stars Liliane Lemaître-Auger and Véronique Le Flaguais as Isabelle and Virginie, colleagues at a film production company in Montreal, who dream of finding the perfect man but come to realize that reality doesn't live up to their fantasies.[3] It was the first privately produced feature film in Canada to be directed by a woman.
The film won two Canadian Film Awards at the 24th Canadian Film Awards in 1972, for Best Editing (Danielle Gagné) and the Wendy Michener Award.[4]
It was later screened at the 1984 Festival of Festivals as part of Front & Centre, a special retrospective program of artistically and culturally significant films from throughout the history of Canadian cinema.[5]