Our Loved Ones
| Our Loved Ones | |
|---|---|
| Les êtres chers | |
| Directed by | Anne Émond |
| Produced by |
Sylvain Corbeil Nancy Grant |
| Written by | Anne Émond |
| Starring |
Maxim Gaudette Karelle Tremblay Valérie Cadieux Mickael Gouin |
| Music by | Martin Léon |
| Cinematography | Mathieu Laverdière |
| Edited by | Mathieu Bouchard-Malo |
Production companies |
Metafilms[1] |
| Distributed by | Les Films Séville |
Release dates |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Our Loved Ones (French: Les êtres chers) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Émond and released in 2015.[2]
The film centres on a family whose patriarch committed suicide in 1978,[3] and explores the continuing emotional impact of his death on his now-adult son David (Maxim Gaudette) and David's daughter Laurence (Karelle Tremblay).[3]
Cast
- Maxim Gaudette as David Leblanc
- Karelle Tremblay as Laurence Leblanc
- Valérie Cadieux as Marie
- Mickaël Gouin as André Leblanc
- Louise Turcot as Aline Leblanc
- Simon Landry-Desy as Félix
- Antoine Desrochers as Antoine[4]
Production
The film was shot in August/September 2014 in Montreal and Notre-Dame-du-Portage (and elsewhere in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region); a few scenes were shot in autumn 2014 in Barcelona, Spain.[4]
Release and reception
The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2015,[2] and had its Canadian premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[5] In December, the film was announced as part of TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian feature films of the year.[6] In 2016 Émond received the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize, awarded to an emerging artist by the Toronto Film Critics Association, for Our Loved Ones.[7][8] The film received seven Jutra Award nominations: Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Gaudette), Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Hairstyling.[9]
References
- ↑ "Our Loved Ones press kit" (PDF). Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- 1 2 "Locarno: Wide Acquires Sales Rights to ‘Our Loved Ones’". Variety, July 27, 2015.
- 1 2 "Un nouveau Maxim Gaudette dans Les êtres chers". Le Soleil, September 18, 2014.
- 1 2 Charles-Henri Ramond (15 November 2015). "Etres chers, Les – Film d'Anne Émond". Films du Québec (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ↑ "Films from Rozema, Falardeau, McDonald, Maddin highlight TIFF's Canuck lineup". Ottawa Citizen, August 4, 2015.
- ↑ "TIFF reveals Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival line-up". The Globe and Mail, December 8, 2015.
- ↑ "Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize". Toronto Film Critics Association. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ↑ Jeremy Kay (5 January 2016). "Toronto critics hail 'The Forbidden Room'". Screen Daily. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ↑ "18e soirée des Jutra: Les finalistes se dévoilent!" (in French). 25 January 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2016.