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Édith and Michel
200451 min 47 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Jocelyne Clarke
Production: Paul Lapointe (Les Productions Érézi Inc.)Colette Loumède (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Jocelyne Clarke
Produced by Les Productions Érézi Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, in association with Radio-Canada, and with the financial participation of Crédit d'impôt cinéma et télévision - Gestion SODEC, the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec and the Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit.
The mystery of Alzheimer's... a case of Édith survival or acceptance? Join Michel Moreau suffering from a severe case of Alzheimer`s and his wife and companion, Édith Fournier, as they navigate the many uncertainties associated with the disease. In this film, Édith gives viewers a glimpse of their severely disrupted lives while showing how their personal inner transformations enable love and life to triumph over isolation and illness.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Coping with Illness and DyingDiseases
- Families > Couples
- Seniors > Health and IllnessHome Care
- Film and Video Arts > Portraits
- Women - Portraits > Women in Crisis
Credits
- participant
- Édith Fournier
- Michel Moreau
- reading
- Jean Pierre Lefebvre
- writer
- Jocelyne Clarke
- director
- Jocelyne Clarke
- consultant
- Jean-Claude Labrecque
- cinematography
- Jean-Claude Labrecque
- François Beauchemin
- sound recording
- Marcel Frazer
- camera assistant
- Mylène Girard
- additional cinematography
- Jérôme Labrecque
- Andrei Khabad
- additional sound
- Esther Auger
- Yves St-Jean
- production assistant
- Tod Van Dyk
- editor
- Louise Côté
- English translation
- Sheila Fischman
- dialogue translation
- Centre national du sous-titrage
- subtitles
- Centre national du sous-titrage
- sound design
- Claude Langlois
- original music
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- voice direction
- Hubert Fielden
- online editor
- Patrick Brenneur
- graphic designer
- Patrick Brenneur
- voice recording
- Henry, Jr. Golding
- mix
- Jean-Pierre Bissonnette
- special effects
- Stéphane Cadotte
- archival research
- Jocelyne Clarke
- administration
- Jean-François Foucault
- Nadine Dominique
- Manon Provencher
- legal services
- Daniel Lafortune
- producer
- Paul Lapointe
- Colette Loumède
- associate producer
- Christiane Germain
Awards
- Golden Sheaf Award - Best Documentary Point of View - with a cash prize of 500$Yorkton Film Festival