The Night Logan Woke Up (2022)
- Original title
- La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé
- Directed by
- Xavier Dolan
- Genre
- drama film, thriller film
- Country
- Canada
- Length
- 1 season, 5 episodes
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 48 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A thanatologist returns to her hometown to embalm her mother as the family gathers. The series shifts between the present and the early 1990s to reveal a long-buried traumatic event.
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What happens
The Night Logan Woke Up (French: La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé) is a Canadian thriller drama limited television series created, written and directed by Xavier Dolan. Adapted from the theatrical play La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé by Michel Marc Bouchard, the series centres on the Larouches, a family in Val-des-Chutes, Quebec, who are coping with the death of family matriarch Madeleine (Anne Dorval). The series alternates between the present day, when prodigal daughter Mimi/Mireille (Julie Le Breton), a prominent thanatologist, returns home for the first time in decades. She honours her mother's dying request that she embalm the body. The present is sometimes displaced by flashbacks to the early 1990s, when the young Mireille (Jasmine Lemée) and her brother Jules/Julien (Elijah Patrice-Baudelot) were close friends with Logan Goodyear/Laurier Gaudreault (Pier-Gabriel Lajoie) until the event that shattered the family. The cast also includes Patrick Hivon as the adult Jules/Julien, Éric Bruneau as brother Denis, Dolan as youngest brother Elliot, and Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Julien's wife Chantal, as well as Julianne Côté, Guylaine Tremblay, Jacques Lavallée and Sylvie Drapeau in supporting roles. Much of the core cast played the Larouches in the original 2019 stage production of Bouchard's play. The series premiered in Canada on November 24, 2022, on Club Illico, and January 23, 2023, on Canal+ in France. The first two episodes screened in the Indie Episodic program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The series premiered in the US on Netflix later that year, on October 18, 2023. The series won six Prix Gémeaux: Best Direction, Best Leading Role in a Drama Series, Best Supporting Role in a Drama Series, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Original Music. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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