Still Night, Still Light (2016)

Original title

Mes nuits feront écho

Directed by

Sophie Goyette

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman from Montreal goes to Mexico City to escape her depression. She stays in a home and teaches piano to a boy whose father is preparing to travel with his ailing dad.

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What happens

Still Night, Still Light (French: Mes nuits feront écho) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sophie Goyette and released in 2016. The film stars Éliane Préfontaine as Éliane, a woman dealing with depression who temporarily abandons her life in Montreal and travels to Mexico City, where she stays at a home owned by Romes (Gerardo Trejoluna) and takes a job teaching his son to play piano; Romes, meanwhile, is planning to accompany his ailing father Pablo (Felipe Casanova) on a trip to Asia which may be Pablo's last major dream in his life. The film's cast also includes Marie-Ginette Guay and Monique Spaziani. It is thematically related to, but not a direct remake of, Goyette's 2011 short film La Ronde, which also starred Préfontaine. The film premiered at the 2016 Festival du nouveau cinéma, before opening commercially in January 2017. The film was a nominee for the DGC Discovery Award at the 2017 Directors Guild of Canada awards. It was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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