Still Night, Still Light (film)

Still Night, Still Light
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French	Mes nuits feront écho
Directed by	Sophie Goyette
Written by	Sophie Goyette
Produced by	Sophie Goyette
Starring	Éliane Préfontaine Gerardo Trejoluna Felipe Casanova
Cinematography	Léna Mill-Reuillard
Edited by	Sophie Goyette
Music by	Éliane Préfontaine
Distributed by	La Distributrice de films
Release date	October 11, 2016 (2016-10-11) (FNC)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Canada
Languages	French English Spanish Mandarin

Still Night, Still Light (French: Mes nuits feront écho) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sophie Goyette and released in 2016.^[1] The film stars Éliane Préfontaine as Éliane, a woman dealing with depression who temporarily abandons her life in Montreal and travels to Mexico City, where she stays at a home owned by Romes (Gerardo Trejoluna) and takes a job teaching his son to play piano; Romes, meanwhile, is planning to accompany his ailing father Pablo (Felipe Casanova) on a trip to Asia which may be Pablo's last major dream in his life.^[2]

The film's cast also includes Marie-Ginette Guay and Monique Spaziani.^[3] It is thematically related to, but not a direct remake of, Goyette's 2011 short film La Ronde, which also starred Préfontaine.^[1]

The film premiered at the 2016 Festival du nouveau cinéma,^[4] before opening commercially in January 2017.^[5]

The film was a nominee for the DGC Discovery Award at the 2017 Directors Guild of Canada awards.^[6] It was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2018.^[7]

References

1. Manon Dumais, "«Mes nuits feront écho»: rêver mieux". Le Devoir, January 9, 2017.
2. Kiva Reardon, "'Your Film Will Always Travel More Than You': Director Sophie Goyette on Independent Distribution". Filmmaker, December 12, 2017.
3. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Mes nuits feront écho – Film de Sophie Goyette". Films du Québec, December 28, 2016.
4. Jean-Baptiste Hervé, "LES ESSENTIELS DU FNC 2016". Voir, October 12, 2016.
5. André Duchesne, "Mes nuits feront écho: trois histoires de transmission". La Presse, January 13, 2017.
6. Barry Hertz, "Directors Guild of Canada reveals long list for Discovery Award". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017.
7. "Le problème d'infiltration remporte le Prix collégial du cinéma québécois". Ici Radio-Canada, March 26, 2018.

External links

• Still Night, Still Light at IMDb