Main Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Tara Fitzgerald, Monique Mercure, David Fox, Eugene Lipinski
Release Year: 1998
Country: UK/CA
Run Time: 92 minutes
Plot
Piers Haggard directed this whimsical Canadian-British comedy-drama set in tiny Conquest, Saskatchewan (pop. 124), where local banker Pincer Bedier (Lothar Bluteau) encourages new businesses. After the Alfa Romeo of Daisy MacDonald (Tara Fitzgerald) stalls in Conquest, Pincer recruits her to run the local hardware store in a trade for repairs to her vehicle. Shown at the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
Conquest is a 1998 Canadianromantic comedy film set in the dying prairie town of Conquest, Saskatchewan, most of whose remaining residents are in their 70s and depressed. Thirty-two year old Pincer Bedier (Lothaire Bluteau), the French-Canadian manager of the only bank branch in the town, dreams of reviving the town and its only cash crop, the edible pea pods of the Caragana bush. Daisy MacDonald (Tara Fitzgerald), a young, beautiful and mysterious English or Australian woman, happens into town in her bright red Alpha Romeosports car and when it stalls, finds herself stranded indefinitely until the needed parts can be shipped in. Her presence invigourates the town and its inhabitants and romance develops between her and the young banker, while the older inhabitants catch his vision of the future. [1][2]
