Lessons on Life

Lessons on Life
FrenchTrois pommes à côté du sommeil
Directed byJacques Leduc
Written byJacques Leduc
Michel Langlois
Produced bySuzanne Dussault
Pierre Latour
René Malo
StarringNormand Chouinard
Paule Baillargeon
CinematographyPierre Letarte
Edited byPierre Bernier
Music byRené Lussier
Jean Derome
Production
company
Malofilm Productions
Release date
  • August 24, 1989 (1989-08-24) (MWFF)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Lessons on Life (French: Trois pommes à côté du sommeil) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jacques Leduc and released in 1989.[1] The film stars Normand Chouinard as an unnamed magazine journalist who is reflecting on his life, and the important influence of three women on it, on the occasion of his 40th birthday.[2]

The cast also includes Paule Baillargeon, Paule Marier, Hubert Reeves, Marcel Sabourin, Guy Nadon, Marie-Josée Gauthier, Frédérique Collin and France Castel.

The film won the Prix Luc-Perreault from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in 1990.[3]

References

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Trois pommes à côté du sommeil – Film de Jacques Leduc". Films du Québec, March 12, 2009.
  2. ^ Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 44.
  3. ^ "Prizes awarded for Quebec films". The Globe and Mail, February 12, 1990.


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