Old Age
Les Films du 3 Mars (F3M) invites you to discover thematic cinema about Old Age. From fiction to documentaries, long and short, enjoy the best of Québécois and Canadian filmmaking !
LASTING WINTER
18 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1
February 2004. Guy Caron and his wife Jeanne-d’Arc lived in the same house for more than 50 years. A sailor who sailed every ocean, Guy was away for eight months a year, for all his career. A housekeeper, Jeanne-d’Arc raised their nine children. Their old days bring them together; but something fundamental seems to have slipped away from them forever. The director looks at this couple from a voluntary distance, leaving ample room for his quest for meaning.
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L’INSTANT ET LA PATIENCE
52 min, Documentaire, Canada, 5.1
In the Résidence Maison-Neuve, the residents tell in turn their stories, their heartbreaks, their illness, their little joys and their expectation of this great, dark and last visitor that is death. L’instant et la patience demonstrate that as we age, we become not less, but more human. We touch the fragility and the beauty of the human condition. It is perhaps when life escapes us that we finally measure its value.
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