OUR LOVED ONES LES ÊTRES CHERS

WHAT A GENERATION PASSES ON TO THE NEXT

-BY THE DIRECTOR OF NIGHT#1 & THE PRODUCERS OF MOMMY. FESTIVAL DEL FILM LOCARNO 2015 CONCORSO CINEASTI DEL PRESENTE SYNOPSIS

In 1978, Guy Leblanc dies tragically in a small village of the province of Quebec. The real cause of his death remains a mystery for most of his family.

Years later, when his son David, now loving father of two children, learns the truth about Guy’s suicide, he has to live with the pain and resentment of his father’s action as must David’s daughter with her own reaction to her father’s suffering. CAST & CREW

DIRECTOR PRODUCTION Anne Émond Metafilms

SCRIPT ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Anne Émond French

EDITING LENGTH Mathieu Bouchard-Malo 102’

PHOTOGRAPHY COUNTRY Mathieu Laverdière Canada

ART DIRECTOR GENRE Éric Barbeau Drama

CAST YEAR Maxim Gaudette 2015 Karelle Tremblay Valérie Cadieux COLOR Mikael Gouin DCP - HD CAST Maxim Gaudette 2010 : INCENDIES, Denis Villeneuve 2009 : POLYTECHNIQUE, Denis Villeneuve 2007 : LES 3 P'TITS COCHONS, Patrick Huard

Karelle Tremblay

2015 : CORBO, Mathieu Denis 2014 : MIRACULUM, Podz 2013 : AMSTERDAM, Stefan Miljevic

Mikael Gouin 2014 : UN PARALLÈLE PLUS TARD, Sébastien Landry 2010 : STARBUCK, Ken Scott

Valérie Cadieux 2009 : POLYTECHNIQUE, Denis Villeneuve DIRECTOR ANNE EMOND FILMOGRAPHY 2015 : LES ÊTRES CHERS 2011 : NIGHT #1 – 1st Feature Best Canadian Feature Film - 30th Vancouver International Film Festival Jury Special Mention - 36th Toronto International Film Festival

SHORT FILMS 2011 : PLUS RIEN NE VOULOIR 2010 : SOPHIE LAVOIE 2009 : NAISSANCES 2009 : L’ORDRE DES CHOSES DIRECTOR’S With Our Loved Ones I wanted the magnificent Lower St. STATEMENT to say something tender and Lawrence. In the film, nature is nuanced about the kind of at once savior and threat. It is « Our Loved Ones is a people for whom life doesn’t David’s refuge but will also be film that deals with dark go without saying, those whose his end. It’s there he loses subject matter and yet spirits feel out of tune, who are himself. celebrates life in so doing. It is too sensitive for this world. the story of a family shaken by While Our Loved Ones tells the a tragedy, the tremors of David’s love for his family is story of David’s suffering, it first which will be felt for several infinite – his wife and children and foremost tells that of his decades. It is also and above save him, help him to reconcile daughter Laurence’s recovery, all a story of the great love with life. He’d give anything for she who chooses life. It is a between a father and them. Beneath her parents’ family film, one I hoped would daughter, David and tender gaze, Laurence grows be both tender and cruel, Laurence. from a mischievous little girl happy and sad, bright, into a promising young nostalgic and generous. David is a man who has woman. She experiences her everything one needs to be first loves, her first This film has been brewing happy: a lovely wife, beautiful disappointments, her first inside me for almost fifteen children, a good career. And failures and successes. She years. It tells a story that is in yet, he carries within him a dull becomes an adult. The film many respects quite similar to sorrow, an invisible, thus has two protagonists, my own, and speaks of penetrating wound he cannot Laurence taking over from her characters very dear to my explain. He is a fragile being, father when the time comes. heart. I am happy that this film melancholy and tormented. exists today. He has difficulty putting down Our Loved Ones is also a film roots, as if panicked by the about nature and wide-open I see it as a testimony to life, cruelly ephemeral nature of spaces. I had the opportunity redemption, and beauty. everything around him. to shoot in my native region, » Anne Emond PRODUCERS SYLVAIN CORBEIL & NANCY GRANT

FILMS

OUR LOVED ONES BESTIAIRE

MOMMY NIGHT #1

FÉLIX AND MEIRA LAURENTIE

JOY OF MAN’S DESIRING LES LIGNES ENNEMIES

VIC + FLO SAW A BEAR

DIEGO STAR SOUNDTRACK

RED & YELLOW By Martin Leo LES EDITIONS CELESTONE MUSIC 2015

NO RAIN ANGELES By Blind Melon By Eliott Smith HEAVY MELON MUSIC SPENT BULLETS MUSIC EMI APRIL MUSIC INC UNIVERSAL MUSIC CAREERS

COMMON PEOPLE FUNNY LITTLE MAN By Pulp By Aphex Twin UNIVERSAL ISLAND MUSIC LTD, BMG BLUE UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING CANADA II, UNIVERSAL MUS PUBG LTD PRESS

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