North Station (film)

North Station (French: Station Nord) is a Canadian children's comedy film, directed by Jean-Claude Lord and released in 2002.[1]

North Station
FrenchStation Nord
Directed byJean-Claude Lord
Written byDenyse Benoit
Daniel Morin
Produced byPierre Gendron
Daniel Morin
StarringBenoît Brière
Renée Claude
Xavier Morin-Lefort
Lansana Kourouma
Catherine Florent
CinematographySerge Desrosiers
Edited byClaude Palardy
Music byDaniel Constantineau
Daniel Bélanger
Production
companies
Bloom Films
Z Productions
Distributed byLes Films Equinoxe
Release date
  • November 11, 2002 (2002-11-11)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The film is set in the town of North Station, where children's letters to Santa Claus (Benoît Brière) were delivered for many years and answered by a local family; after the death of his grandfather, Samuel (Xavier Morin-Lefort) and his girlfriend Évelyne (Roxanne Gaudette-Loiseau) decide to carry on the tradition, but Samuel goes missing and is presumed dead after trying to deliver the letters in a snowstorm, when in fact he has been saved and taken to Santa's workshop at the North Pole. When a letter arrives fifty years later from Satia, the granddaughter of Évelyne (Renée Claude), requesting Santa's help in curing Évelyne of cancer, Samuel becomes motivated to go out to reunite with his lost love.[2]

The cast also includes Lansana Kourouma, Catherine Florent, Genevieve Déry, Nathalie Simard, Gaston Lepage and Louis-Georges Girard.

The film was released in theatres on November 11, 2002.[1]

The film received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Art Direction at the 5th Jutra Awards in 2003.[3]

References

  1. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Station Nord – Film de Jean-Claude Lord". Films du Québec, June 11, 2009.
  2. "Lord directs HD family fantasy Station Nord". Playback, July 23, 2001.
  3. Odile Tremblay, "Dix nominations - Séraphin domine la course aux Jutra". Le Devoir, January 29, 2003.


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