Still Night, Still Light (French: Mes nuits feront écho) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sophie Goyette and released in 2016.[1] The film stars Éliane Préfontaine as Éliane, a woman dealing with depression who temporarily abandons her life in Montreal and travels to Mexico City, where she stays at a home owned by Romes (Gerardo Trejoluna) and takes a job teaching his son to play piano; Romes, meanwhile, is planning to accompany his ailing father Pablo (Felipe Casanova) on a trip to Asia which may be Pablo's last major dream in his life.[2]
| Still Night, Still Light | |
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 Poster | |
| French | Mes nuits feront écho |
| Directed by | Sophie Goyette |
| Written by | Sophie Goyette |
| Produced by | Sophie Goyette |
| Starring | Éliane Préfontaine Gerardo Trejoluna Felipe Casanova |
| Cinematography | Léna Mill-Reuillard |
| Edited by | Sophie Goyette |
| Music by | Éliane Préfontaine |
| Distributed by | La Distributrice de films |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | French English Spanish Mandarin |
The film's cast also includes Marie-Ginette Guay and Monique Spaziani.[3] It is thematically related to, but not a direct remake of, Goyette's 2011 short film La Ronde, which also starred Préfontaine.[1]
The film premiered at the 2016 Festival du nouveau cinéma,[4] before opening commercially in January 2017.[5]
The film was a nominee for the DGC Discovery Award at the 2017 Directors Guild of Canada awards.[6] It was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2018.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b Manon Dumais, "«Mes nuits feront écho»: rêver mieux". Le Devoir, January 9, 2017.
- ^ Kiva Reardon, "'Your Film Will Always Travel More Than You': Director Sophie Goyette on Independent Distribution". Filmmaker, December 12, 2017.
- ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Mes nuits feront écho – Film de Sophie Goyette". Films du Québec, December 28, 2016.
- ^ Jean-Baptiste Hervé, "LES ESSENTIELS DU FNC 2016". Voir, October 12, 2016.
- ^ André Duchesne, "Mes nuits feront écho: trois histoires de transmission". La Presse, January 13, 2017.
- ^ Barry Hertz, "Directors Guild of Canada reveals long list for Discovery Award". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017.
- ^ "Le problème d'infiltration remporte le Prix collégial du cinéma québécois". Ici Radio-Canada, March 26, 2018.
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