My Mother's Letters (2017)

Directed by

Serge Giguère

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 27m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary explores rural Quebec life in the 1940s and 1950s through letters written by the director's mother to her oldest son. It offers a window into family and community during that era.

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What happens

My Mother's Letters (French: Les lettres de ma mère) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Serge Giguère and released in 2017. The film is a social history of life in rural Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s, presented through various letters written by Giguère's mother to her oldest son, Henri, after he became an adult and moved out of the family home. The film was produced by Giguère's ex-wife, Sylvie Van Brabant, who, despite the end of their marriage, remains a frequent collaborator as producer of most of Giguère's films, and features the participation of their daughter, cinematographer Katerine Giguère. The film premiered at the 2017 Montreal International Documentary Festival, before going into commercial release in 2018. The film received two Prix Iris nominations at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, for Best Editing in a Documentary (Catherine Legault) and Best Sound in a Documentary (Claude Beaugrand, Luc Boudrias, Serge Giguère). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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