Mémoires affectives
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Mémoires affectives |
| Country of production | Canada ( Québec ) |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Francis Leclerc |
| script |
Marcel Beaulieu Francis Leclerc |
| production | Barbara Shrier |
| music | Pierre Duchesne |
| camera | Steve Asselin |
| cut | Glenn Berman |
| occupation | |
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Looking for Alexander is a Canadian film director Francis Leclerc from the year 2004 . The main role of the psychodrama was played by Roy Dupuis . In atmospheric, sometimes almost black and white pictures, the winter landscape and the relationship between a person and the environment are shown.
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Alexandre Tourneur is considered clinically dead. He has been in a coma for a long time, apparently unconscious. A mysterious man turns off his ventilator to release him from this desolate state. Surprisingly, the opposite happens and Alexandre wakes up. Michelle, his wife, doesn't really know how to deal with it. She is not exactly happy about it, because she had been estranged from her husband for a long time. She actually wanted to start a new life with her boyfriend. Alexandre is recovering physically, but has lost his memory . He is faced with the confusing, contradicting statements of his former acquaintances, who are now foreign to him. He doesn't remember his family or anything else, but he has strange memory fragments / flashbacks and speaks Montagnais, the language of the Innu , under hypnosis . His doctor says that he has the archaic memory of an Innu and a deer. Alexandre has memories in the subconscious that he apparently takes in from his surroundings, but not his own.
The policewoman Pauline Maksoud reconstructs the accident that led to Alexandre's condition. She is investigating a hit-and-run against an unknown driver. Alexandre, who is a veterinarian by profession, was about to relieve a wounded deer from his suffering with a syringe when he was probably hit by a truck. The policewoman finds a gray Honda that could be involved in the accident. However, the owner denies having injured a person. He only admits to having hit the deer, which is what he is believed.
Alexandre's memories of his former life slowly return through old photos and stories. As a child, he was in several foster families after his father died. He also has a brother from whom he was separated. Alexandre researches the events of that time. He finds the terrifying truth when he visits his brother Joseph. Her father did not drown in a boat accident, but died from a gunshot while they were out hunting. The drunken father wanted to make the young Alexandre a man and demanded that he give a shot of deer the coup de grace, which he does not have the heart. The older brother intervened to protect him, whereupon he was brutally beaten by the irascible father. Alexandre realizes with horror that he himself fired the fatal shot. The brothers hushed up the tragic incident together. It was also Joseph who turned off Alexandre's equipment in the hospital. The search for his past is now over and Alexandre can start his life again. A hunter from the Innu people shoots an arrow while hunting in a winter landscape.
Reviews
- DVD cover, Gilles Carignan, October 30, 2004, Le Soleil: “Un grand film. Un scenario brilliant. Un pur joyau! ” (In German, for example: A great film. A brilliant scenario. A pure jewel! )
Awards
- 2005: Genie Awards won: Francis Leclerc for Best Director, Francis Leclerc and Marcel Beaulieu for Best Screenplay, Roy Dupuis for Best Actor. There were also three nominations.
- 2005: Prix Jutra won: Roy Dupuis for Best Actor, Francis Leclerc for Best Director, Glenn Berman for Best Editing, Barbara Shrier for Best Film. There was a nomination for the script.
- 2005: Prix du public - Coup de coeur super écran
Background information
Mémoires affectives means emotional memories in German . The film was shot in the province and in the city of Quebec . The budget was about CAD 3 million . The film grossed over CAD 670,000 in Canadian cinemas. Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm distributes the film.
DVDs of the film have been available in Canada since July 2005 , in French with French and English subtitles. The run length is approx. 101 minutes. The film is not subject to any age restrictions in Canada. You can call up a menu in French under the French title and one in English under the English title Looking for Alexander . A second DVD shows a making of in French with many shots of the Canadian winter landscape. VHS tapes have also been released.
The film was shown in the original French version with English subtitles on the occasion of the long night of francophone films on March 22, 2006 in a cinema in Munich. In March 2006 he was seen at the 8th Festival du film francophone in Vienna .
Web links
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- ↑ Gilles Carignan, Le Soleil (French) ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
