Bussières first attracted attention as a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt's rigorously dark film, Sonatine. But it was Blanche, a TV series directed by Charles Binamé that gave her étoile status in Québec. After playing the heroine of that show, and more recently the roller-blading cokehead of Binamé's Gen-X picture, Eldorado, she became the 1990s heir of Bujold and Laure—the most charismatic actress of her generation. It's a measure of Bussières's range that her follow-up to Eldorado was the role of a prim theology student who uncovers her desire for women in Patricia Rozema's When Night is Falling.