Waiting for Casimir (2024)
- Original title
- En attendant Casimir
- Directed by
- Christian Mathieu Fournier
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 08m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary follows senior citizens living in a Quebec retirement home. It draws parallels between their quiet, uneventful daily life and the themes found in Waiting for Godot and Edward Hopper's paintings.
slow-burnmelancholicstillcontemplativequietintimatereflective
What happens
Waiting for Casimir (French: En attendant Casimir) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Christian Mathieu Fournier and released in 2024. The film profiles a group of senior citizens living in a retirement home in Saint-Casimir, Quebec, drawing impressionistic parallels between their situation in a dreary environment marked by the slow passage of time and the relative lack of excitement and stimulation with cultural touchstones such as Waiting for Godot and the paintings of Edward Hopper. The film premiered on December 6, 2024, at the Cinémathèque québécoise. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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