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Bernard Émond (b. 1951)

Birthplace:
Montreal, Canada

Born:
September 1, 1951

Biography from TheMovieDB

Bernard Émond (born 1951) is a Canadian director, screenwriter, novelist and essayist working in the French-language. He studied anthropology at university and lived for several years in the Canadian north where he worked for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. He began his film career making documentaries, later moving to feature-length films, all of which have been shot in Quebec. He is noted for the humanistic, sometimes spiritual depth of his films, in particular his trilogy of feature films (2007, 2009, 2012) based on the three Christian virtues, faith, hope, and charity. Other themes in his work include human dignity and frailty, and cultural loss. He describes himself as an agnostic and a "conservative socialist."

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Director:
1978  Trois Mille Fois Par Jour
1992  Ceux qui ont le pas léger meurent sans laisser de traces
1994  The time and patience
1997  L'épreuve du feu
1999  Le temps et le lieu
2001  The Woman Who Drinks
2003  8:17pm, Darling Street
2005  Novena
2007  Summit Circle
2009  The Legacy
2012  All That You Possess
2015  The Diary of an Old Man
2018  A Place to live
2023  A Respectable Woman

Script Consultant:
1978  Trois Mille Fois Par Jour
1992  Ceux qui ont le pas léger meurent sans laisser de traces
1992  Requiem for a Handsome Bastard
1994  The time and patience
1997  L'épreuve du feu
1999  Le temps et le lieu
2001  The Woman Who Drinks
2003  8:17pm, Darling Street
2005  Novena
2007  Summit Circle
2009  The Legacy
2012  All That You Possess
2015  The Diary of an Old Man
2018  A Place to live
2023  A Respectable Woman

Writer:
1978  Trois Mille Fois Par Jour
1992  Ceux qui ont le pas léger meurent sans laisser de traces
1992  Requiem for a Handsome Bastard
1994  The time and patience
1997  L'épreuve du feu
1999  Le temps et le lieu
2001  The Woman Who Drinks
2003  8:17pm, Darling Street
2005  Novena
2007  Summit Circle
2008  The Necessities of Life
2009  The Legacy
2012  All That You Possess
2015  The Diary of an Old Man
2018  A Place to live
2023  A Respectable Woman

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