Discussions in Bioethics: The Old Woman

198815 min 48 secFilm: Fiction

Direction: Gilles Blais

Production: Guy L. Coté

Script: René Boulanger

A film about the fate of an old lady who goes into the hospital for a routine check-up and is abandoned there by the grandchildren with whom she has been living.

Other versions

Bioéthique : une question de choix - La Vieille Dame

Subject categories

  • Health and Medicine > BioethicsCoping with Illness and DyingSeniors
  • Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Ethics and Bioethics
  • Seniors > Family LifeHealth and IllnessInstitutional CareIsolation and SolitudeSocial ProblemsWomen
  • Family Studies/Home Economics > Aging/Death and Dying
  • Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
  • History and Citizenship Education > Issues in Society Today

Credits

director
Gilles Blais
producer
Guy L. Coté
script
René Boulanger
photography
Martin Leclerc
sound
Claude Hazanavicius
editing
Marc Hébert
re-recording
Jean-Pierre Joutel
Adrian Croll
music
Léa Price
cast
Johanne Fontaine
Danièle Garneau
Jacques Godin
Terrence Labrosse
Jacques Lavallée
Françoise Lemaître-Auger
Sylvie Madore
Mimi d' Estée

Awards

  • Certificate of Merit - Category: Government Film Festival Québécois de l'audiovisuel