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My Mother's Letters (2018)

ALL 03/16/2018 (fr) Documentary 86 Min
  • Release
    03/16/2018
  • Production
    Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    Les lettres de ma mère
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

In this very personal and poetic film, veteran documentarian Serge Giguère pores through 100 letters written by his late mother to him and his 15 siblings. In them, she details the trials and tribulations of raising 16 children in rural Quebec, while helping to run a family carpentry business. Through inventive and playful techniques, Giguère brings the stories alive, applying creative approaches to family photographs, archival footage and staged reenactments. He mixes his mother's stories with his own memories and those of his siblings, some of whom hear for the first time what their mother had to say about them. Through these intertwining stories, the film presents not only a testament of a mother's complicated love for her many children, but also offers an intimate look at 1950s working class Quebec. - Aisha Jamal (Hot Docs Film Festival)

  1. Serge Giguère

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Serge Giguère

    Lui-même

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Casts : 1 , Crews : 7

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My Mother's Letters (2018) 86 Min

ALL 03/16/2018 (fr)
Documentary
  • Release 03/16/2018
  • Production
    Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc
  • Original title Les lettres de ma mère
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In this very personal and poetic film, veteran documentarian Serge Giguère pores through 100 letters written by his late mother to him and his 15 siblings. In them, she details the trials and tribulations of raising 16 children in rural Quebec, while helping to run a family carpentry business. Through inventive and playful techniques, Giguère brings the stories alive, applying creative approaches to family photographs, archival footage and staged reenactments. He mixes his mother's stories with his own memories and those of his siblings, some of whom hear for the first time what their mother had to say about them. Through these intertwining stories, the film presents not only a testament of a mother's complicated love for her many children, but also offers an intimate look at 1950s working class Quebec. - Aisha Jamal (Hot Docs Film Festival)

  1. Serge Giguère

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Catherine Legault

    Editor

  4. Sylvie van Brabant, Amélie Lambert Bouchard

    Producer



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