The Day Is Listening

Collaborators : Chénier, René | Dufour-Laperrière, Félix | Roy, Julie | Office national du film du Canada
Courtship.French-Canadian poetry -- Québec (Province)Literature and Language - Canada -- Poets and Poetry.Literature and Language -- Animation based on Literature.Literature and Language -- Reading and Writing.Psychology and Psychiatry -- Emotional Life.Psychology and Psychiatry -- Interpersonal Relationships.Animated films.Show 3 more

This animated film is above all a love story told with emotion and delicacy. A man loves a woman; both of them love literature. We discover the murmur of their lives, the harmony of their feelings-and we learn how their affection for novels and poetry marks their existence beyond death. The fruitful alliance of filmmaker Félix Dufour-Laperrière's imagery and the words of Quebec poet Hélène Dorion results in a subtle, sensitive film that resonates in the viewer's heart and mind. In its hybridization of styles and techniques, The Day Is Listening is also a most modern and daring work: its director has deftly expanded the spectrum of traditional hand-drawn animation, incorporating mosaics of real images that express a myriad of intertwining memories as well as the pulse of urban life.

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Resource Type : Émission et filmFormats : 1 streaming video (8 min., 08 sec.)Language : AnglaisYear of publication : ©2013

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