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The Last Escape (2010)

The Last Escape poster
Original title
La dernière fugue
Directed by
Léa Pool
Genre
drama film, Christmas film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
A
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An aging man leaves his family during the Christmas season to travel to a remote cabin in the snowy Quebec countryside. There he confronts his past and his own mortality.

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What happens

The Last Escape (French: La dernière fugue) is a 2010 French-language Canadian drama film, directed by Léa Pool and written by Pool and Gil Courtemanche based on the novel A Beautiful Death (2005). This film stars Yves Jacques, Jacques Godin, Andrée Lachapelle and Aliocha Schneider and was theatrical released at Canada on February 2, 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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