Features:

• DVD

Format: DVD-Video

Release Date: 01-12-2005

Details: Amazon.ca In the very moving La femme qui boit, Bernard Émond watched Élise Guilbault sink into alcoholism. With his second film, 20h17 Rue Darling, selected at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, the Quebec director once again explores bottle addiction through the overwhelming character of Gérard, played by a brilliant Luc Picard. Without his undone shoelace, Gérard, a former news reporter and Alcoholic Anonymous, would have died in the explosion of his building in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, the poorest neighborhood in Montreal. But how to rejoice to have survived when years of alcoholism have destroyed all ability to love oneself? In an attempt to understand, but also to get rid of his guilt, Gérard will lead the investigation into the accident. By taking up the question "Why did I survive?", already posed by Primo Levi in ​​his autobiographical film La Trêve, Bernard Émond has produced a remarkable film. Far from the clichés of the detective film and the philosophical quest. 8:17 p.m. Rue Darling dares to look human weaknesses straight in the eye, without judgment or moralization. A magnificent text (written by the director himself), narrated in the first person by Luc Picard as a shipwrecked hero of life, always on the edge, questions the great injustices of life according to Émond: sobriety and alcoholism , wealth and poverty, life and death. Supported by a coherent naturalistic staging, 20h17 Rue Darling wonders with salutary simplicity if an addiction to alcohol can turn into an addiction to life. – Helen Faradji. Product description This is the story of Gerard, a man who miraculously survived an explosion that destroyed his apartment and killed a lot of people. During the next few days he tries to find out why he survived and others died.

UPC: 807581503643

EAN: 0807581503643

Languages: English

Binding: Paperback

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood