La Donation English Action Movie 2009Cast And Crew
Cast : Marie-Soleil Corbin-Allyson, Angèle Coutu ,Michel Daigle ,Lealie Ferland-Tanguay ,Danielle Fichaud ,Jacques Godin ,Monique Gosselin ,Françoise Graton ,Elise Guilbault ,Eric Hoziel ,Odette Lampron
Director: Bernard Émond
Writers: Bernard Émond
Release Date: 6 November 2009 (Canada)
Genre: Action | Drama more
Country: Canada
Language: French | English
Plot:
Dr. Rainville, an aging country doctor with a deep attachment to his patients, is about to retire and is looking for a successor
In Theatres November 6, 2009 - La Donation (The Legacy) - Dr. Rainville, an aging country doctor with a deep attachment to his patients, is about to retire and is looking for a successor. Jeanne Dion, an emergency room doctor from Montreal, agrees to go to Normétal to replace him for a few weeks, with no plans for an extended stay. When Dr. Rainville suddenly dies, Jeanne must decide if she'll take over the job, and its inherent responsibilities, for the long-term.
La Donation Canadian Movie :
A dedicated country doctor in the town Normetal, Dr. Rainville, looks for someone to take over his practice. Jeanne Dion, an doctor living in Montreal, replies to his advertisement. She spends a week accompanying him on his home visits, to hospices and hospitals, and observes his close relationships to his patients.
In the evenings, he tells her the family histories of his patients. After he goes away, she gets to know the town and its people in whose hard lives the doctor has played a special role. Life has been tough for the townspeople as the local mine that was the town’s lifeblood was shut down thirty years ago. Jeanne gradually becomes drawn to the region and finds in her patients a dignity, honesty and trust she never experienced in Montreal. Some months later, although she has become attached to her new patients, Jeanne still hesitates to accept the doctor’s proposition as she doubts her ability to assume such a commitment to the community
La Donation is a deeply emotional and stirring film from Quebec auteur Bernard Émond. The final work in his humanist trilogy (following La Neuvaine and Contre toute espérance), it expands on the series' themes of faith, fate and healing. Émond's graceful script enhances his distinctively subtle visual approach and is aided by a quiet but moving score from Robert Marcel Lepage. Powering the movie are the stunning and knowing performances by Godin and Guilbault, two of Quebec's finest actors, who are perfectly at home in Émond's filmic landscape.
Inspired partially by Émond's own love for the picturesque region, as well as legendary filmmaker Gilles Groulx's documentary on the town (simply titled Normétal), La Donation is a remembrance of a more pristine past, when small towns thrived on money from natural resources, and doctors made house calls. Émond urges that connections be remade between people and place, and more urgently between each other, in order for us to recognize once again the beauty and shared bond of existence.
A movie very much about a Canada and Quebec long left to black-and-white documentaries, La Donation proposes that these times are not lost but simply misplaced in the rush toward “progress” and urbanization; for them to come back, we need only to pause, look and embrace our surroundings. La Donation is a movie that moves the soul, and in doing so, may move us to return to a more human age.
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