Heaven (1999)

Original title

Le Petit Ciel

Directed by

Jean-Sébastien Lord

Genre

comedy drama

Country

France, Canada

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Montreal bar owner with cancer struggles to keep his failing business and his strained relationship alive. Up in heaven, guardian angels try to help while a distracted Jesus ignores his job.

melancholicdarkly comicwhimsicalmundanebittersweetirreverentbleakpoignant

What happens

Heaven (French: Le Petit Ciel) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Jean-Sébastien Lord and released in 2000. The film stars Jocelyn Blanchard as Jacques Sauvé, the owner of a failing bar in Montreal whose relationship with his girlfriend Sophie (Garance Clavel) is also under strain as he is dying of cancer; meanwhile, in heaven, guardian angels are trying to help out under the supervision of Nebuchadnezzar (André Montmorency) and Ivan the Terrible (Dominique Lévesque) while Jesus Christ (Julien Poulin), who has been the boss ever since God took retirement, is too busy trying to find his new girlfriend's g-spot to pay much attention to the actual operations of the workplace. The film premiered on March 17, 2000 as the closing night gala of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. Poulin received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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