March 20th: 2 pm LES ETRES CHERS [Our Loved Ones]
Director: Anne Émond
CANADA, 2015
French, with English subtitles 102 Minutes
Cast: Maxim Gaudette, Karelle Tremblay, Valérie Cadieux, Mickaël Gouin
A film of ambitious scope and penetrating insight, this second feature from award-win- ning writer-director Anne Émond, follows a Québécois family over a thirty-year period as it traces the fallout from the suicide of the clan’s patriarch.
Protected by his well-intentioned siblings from the truth about his father’s death, the sensitive David has grown into a loving husband and father of two, living a seemingly fulfilling life in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. But as the years go by, during which time his relationship with his wilder brother begins to strain and his kids grow into young adulthood, David begins to struggle with an insuppressible melancholia that gradually threatens to engulf him. Meanwhile, his daughter, Laurence, begins to recognize herself in her father, and sees that she’ll need to reckon with her emotional inheritance if she is to break this destructive cycle and take on the future.
Clearly one of Canada’s great new talents, Émond exhibits a wisdom and empathy for all her characters rarely found in young filmmakers. Though Our Loved Ones is epic in scope (spanning three generations, and taking us from Quebec to Barcelona), it remains unerringly attuned to the inner lives of the family, portraying their heartbreaks and joys with sincerity and grace.
“Simultaneously an expansive, richly detailed family chronicle and an intimate two-hander about a troubled father’s relationship with his spirited teenage daughter, this marks a decisive step up for Anne Émond.” —Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter
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