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Aurore (2005)

Aurore poster
Directed by
Luc Dionne
Genre
drama film, biographical film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 55m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 55 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young girl in early 1900s Quebec suffers severe abuse at the hands of her stepmother. The story follows her difficult life until her death.

tragicsaddisturbinggrittyhistoricalintimatecoldheartbreaking

What happens

Aurore is a 2005 Quebec biographical drama film that was directed by Luc Dionne and produced by Denise Robert and Daniel Louis. It is based on the true story of Aurore Gagnon, one of Quebec's best-known victims of child abuse. The movie is also a remake of Jean-Yves Bigras's 1952 movie La Petite Aurore, l'enfant martyre (Little Aurore, the Child Martyr). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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