The United States of Albert

The United States of Albert (Les États-Unis d'Albert) is a Canadian, French and Swiss co-produced comedy-drama film, directed by André Forcier and released in 2005. The film stars Éric Bruneau as Albert Renaud, a young actor in Montreal who dreams of becoming a movie star in Hollywood, and sets off on a road trip across the United States in pursuit of his dreams; en route, he meets a variety of characters including Grace Carson (Émilie Dequenne), a young Mormon woman with whom he falls in love, and Jack Decker (Roy Dupuis), a mentally unstable man who takes Albert golfing in the Arizona desert.

Cast

 * Éric Bruneau : Albert Renaud
 * Émilie Dequenne : Grace Carson
 * Andréa Ferréol : Jane Pickford
 * Roy Dupuis : Jack Decker
 * Laurent Deshusses : Peter Malone
 * Alex Descas : Nolton Barnett
 * Patricia Ubeda : Maria Romero
 * Marc Labrèche : Simon
 * Céline Bonnier : Hannah Steinway

Reception
Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette panned the film, writing that Forcier's decision to cast a mixture of Québécois and European actors resulted in a distracting diversity of accents and that it strained credulity that the American characters Albert met on his trip would all be able to speak French.

Gilles Aird received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Art Direction at the 8th Jutra Awards in 2006. The film was a Lumières Award nominee for Best French-Language Film at the 12th Lumières Awards in 2007.