Paul à Québec (2015)

Directed by

François Bouvier

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Paul and Lucie are a happy couple whose lives are disrupted when Lucie's father Roland is diagnosed with terminal cancer. The film shows how the family comes together and copes with the illness.

emotionalfamily-centeredquietly movingtenderheartfeltgroundedbittersweetgentle

What happens

Paul à Québec (lit. "Paul in Quebec City") is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by François Bouvier and released in 2015. Based on Michel Rabagliati's graphic novel of the same title, the film stars François Létourneau and Julie Le Breton as Paul and Lucie, a happy couple struggling to cope with Lucie's father Roland's (Gilbert Sicotte) diagnosis with terminal pancreatic cancer. The cast also includes Louise Portal, Bobby Beshro, Brigitte Lafleur, Myriam LeBlanc, Julien Poulin, Mathieu Quesnel, Patrice Robitaille, Geneviève Schmidt, Nathaly Thibault, Jasmine Lemée and Karine Vanasse. Rabagliati originally approached Bouvier about adapting either Paul à Québec or Paul a un travail d'été for film, because he was a fan of Bouvier's earlier film Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver). Around the same time as that personal contact, Karine Vanasse and Nathalie Brigitte Bustos, two of the film's producers, approached La Pastèque, Rabagliati's publisher, to inquire about optioning film rights to Paul à Quebec. Sicotte won the Québec Cinéma award for Best Actor at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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