Directed by:
Raphaël NadjariCinematography:
Benoit BeaulieuComposer:
Jérôme LemonnierCast:
Géraldine Pailhas, Luc Picard, Marcel Sabourin, Dorothée Berryman, Natalie Choquette, Éléonore Lagacé, Felicia Shulman, Paul Kunigis, Raymond Cloutier (more)Plots(1)
Sitting alone in a music archive, Hannah (Geraldine Pailhas), listens to the rarely performed and almost forgotten sounds of Night Song - a classical piece by 19th century French-Jewish composer Fernand Helpan. Living in Montreal, the soprano leads a choir with her husband, Daniel, a pianist, with whom she shares her passion for these treasures of music. Dedicated to keep alive an underappreciated and sacred art form, the couple and their tee n age son, a talented violinist, live a modest life as they struggle to keep the choir Les Cantiques afloat. A new recruit, Abigail, offers new hope – with her youth comes a voice and freedom that transcends time. But the arrival of Hannah's former teacher with the discovery of a sacred piece of music thought to have been lost will threaten their survival and force them to confront the values that define their life's work. Fascinated by the split between tradition and modernity, Nadjari presents a beautifully composed portrait of the ever-present debate about artistic freedom- sticking to the rules or creating new ones. And as his last note lingers on screen, the hearts of the musical masters of the past resonate in our own. (Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg)
(more)Cast
Géraldine Pailhas
France
Best movies:
The Adversary (2002)
Family Hero (2006)
Didine (2008)
Luc Picard
Canada
Best movies:
Le Coeur au poing (1998)
Savage Messiah (2002)
The Fireflies Are Gone (2018)
Marcel Sabourin
Canada
Best movies:
Lilies (1996)
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Dorothée Berryman
Canada
Best movies:
The Red Violin (1998)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Felicia Shulman
Best movies:
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Shivers (1975)
Raymond Cloutier
Best movies:
Nuremberg (2000) (TV movie)
Karmina (1996)
White Skin (2004)
Thomas Vallières
Best movies:
Midway (2019)
The Guide to the Perfect Family (2021)
Exposed (2011) (TV movie)
Laurent Imbault
Best movies:
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Possible Worlds (2000)
Omerta, la loi du silence (1996) (series)
Yvan Benoît
Canada
Best movies:
The Age of Ignorance (2007)
Heat Wave (2009)
Omerta, la loi du silence (1996) (series)