Jacques and November

Jacques and November (French: Jacques et novembre) is a 1984 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Beaudry and François Bouvier.[1] The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2]

Jacques and November
Directed byJean Beaudry
François Bouvier
Written byJean Beaudry
François Bouvier
Produced byFrançois Bouvier
Marcel Simard
StarringJean Beaudry
CinematographySerge Giguère
Edited byJean Beaudry
Music byMichel Rivard
Release date
  • 26 October 1984 (1984-10-26)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The film stars Beaudry as Jacques Landry, a man in his early 30s who is dying of an unspecified incurable disease and documenting his thoughts on mortality in a video diary; simultaneously, his friend Denis (Pierre Rousseau) is trying to make a higher-budget documentary film about him.[3]

Critics largely analyzed the film not as focusing on death as such, but as an affirming and uplifting look at the meaning that friends and family bring to life.[4] Although Jacques Landry's terminal illness was not specified in the film, the LGBT magazine The Body Politic reviewed it as an HIV/AIDS allegory, directly comparing and contrasting its views of mortality with the contemporaneous HIV/AIDS-themed documentary film No Sad Songs.[5]

Awards

The film was one of two selected for the Société générale du cinéma du Québec's annual awards, alongside André Melançon's The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques).[6] The award's prize consisted of a $100,000 investment in the production of the directors' next films.[7]

The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Song, for Michel Rivard's "Le temps nous dépasse".[8]

Cast
  • Jean Beaudry as Jacques Landry
  • Léa-Marie Cantin as Monique
  • Carole Chatel
  • Carole Fréchette as Pierrette
  • Pat Gagnon as Visiteur à l'hôpital
  • Pierre Rousseau as Denis Langlois

See also

References
  1. Hal Erickson (2015). "Jacques and November". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  2. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  3. "Movie within movie depicts dying days". Toronto Star, May 16, 1986.
  4. "Joyous ode to life in tale of dying man". Ottawa Citizen, May 30, 1986.
  5. "Learning to Talk Life and Death". The Body Politic, November 1985. p. 39.
  6. "Quebec filmmakers share $200,000". The Globe and Mail, March 18, 1986.
  7. "Quebec directors vying for prizes". The Globe and Mail, March 6, 1986.
  8. "Scorecard of major nominees for tonight's Genie Awards on TV". Toronto Star, March 20, 1986.
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