Trois temps après la mort d'Anna (Anna's Mourning)

Drama, 35mm, 87 mins, colour, 2010, Québec, Canada, OFV with English subtitles

How to go on living after that?
It is late winter. A young violinist has been murdered in her apartment by an unknown assailant. Devastated by the violent death of her only child, Anna, Françoise leaves Montréal and takes solitary refuge in Kamouraska, in the house she inherited from her maternal ancestors. There, she attemps to reconstruct her interior life by getting back in touch with the river, with nature, and with the house and the objects that remind her of her daughter. But Françoise' grief is profound: she no longer wishes to live. In the forest, a man discovers her letting herself die of cold and saves her. They recognize each other from adolescence. Édouard is now a painter who returned to live in his childhood home a while ago. Gradually, the loving feelings of their youth spontaneously resurface. The presence of this man and the gentle spirits of her deceased grandmother, mother and daughter help Françoise rediscover the desire to live.

Featuring: Guylaine Tremblay, François Papineau and Sheila Jaffé, Denis Bernard, Denise Gagnon, Paule Baillargeon, Gilles Renaud, Gary Boudreault

Director of Photography: Michel La Veaux
Art Director: Caroline Alder
Costumes Designer: Caroline Poirier
Casting: Marie-Jan Seille
Editing: Natalie Lamoureux
Original Music and Musical Director: Robert Marcel Lepage
Sound: Marcel Chouinard, Martin Allard, Simon Gervais, Bernard Gariépy Strobl

Written and directed by: Catherine Martin

Executive Producer: Lorraine Dufour
Producer: Claude Cartier
Production: Coop Vidéo de Montréal
Distributor: K-Films Amérique

Festivals and Events

2010 - Compétition officielle,
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
(République tchèque)