One last road trip with secrets in the trunk and Alzheimer's in the rearview.
When Madeleine is diagnosed with Alzheimers, she makes two important decisions. One is to keep it from her family. The other is to revisit her beloved Gaspésie and relive, for one last time, the memories this evokes. Encountering Zoë, an emotionally disturbed young musician, Madeleine asks her to be her driver for the trip.
Acting
Monique Mercure carries decades of unspoken history in every glance.
Cinematography
Gaspésie's rugged coast becomes a character mourning with her.
Director
Fernand Dansereau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fernand Dansereau cast his own daughter Hélène in a small role, continuing a family tradition in Québécois cinema.
The film's French title 'La Brunante' refers to twilight specifically as a fishing term in Gaspésie — that liminal hour when the catch comes in and nothing's promised.
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