Still_Night,_Still_Light_(film)

<i>Still Night, Still Light</i> (film)

Still Night, Still Light (film)

2016 Canadian film

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]

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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

  1. [1]
    Manon Dumais, "«Mes nuits feront écho»: rêver mieux". Le Devoir, January 9, 2017.
  2. [2]
    Kiva Reardon, "'Your Film Will Always Travel More Than You': Director Sophie Goyette on Independent Distribution". Filmmaker, December 12, 2017.
  3. [3]
    Charles-Henri Ramond, "Mes nuits feront écho – Film de Sophie Goyette". Films du Québec, December 28, 2016.
  4. [4]
    Jean-Baptiste Hervé, "LES ESSENTIELS DU FNC 2016". Voir, October 12, 2016.
  5. [5]
    André Duchesne, "Mes nuits feront écho: trois histoires de transmission". La Presse, January 13, 2017.
  6. [6]
    Barry Hertz, "Directors Guild of Canada reveals long list for Discovery Award". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017.
  7. [7]
    "Le problème d'infiltration remporte le Prix collégial du cinéma québécois". Ici Radio-Canada, March 26, 2018.


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