Crying Out (2010)

Original title

À l'origine d'un cri

Directed by

Robin Aubert

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widower digs up his dead wife's corpse and runs away with her. His father and son then try to find him before he does something dangerous.

grief-strickenabsurdmelancholicdarkly comictenseunsettlingintimateroad-tripdesperate

What happens

Crying Out (French: À l'origine d'un cri) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robin Aubert and released in 2010. The film centres on a grief-stricken widower (Michel Barrette) who unexpectedly digs up his dead wife's corpse and runs off with it, forcing his father (Jean Lapointe) and son (Patrick Hivon) to set off in an attempt to find him before he gets arrested or commits suicide. The film's cast also includes Alexis Martin, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Charlotte Laurier, Micheline Bernard and Bénédicte Décary. The film was shot in the spring and summer of 2009, in Vaudreuil and the Côte-Nord region of Quebec. The film premiered on September 10, 2010, at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, before going into commercial release on September 24. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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