A young man feels compelled to travel with his grand-father. The young man wants to find his father who ran away with the corpse of his ex-wife.
Acting
Jean Lapointe's weathered gravitas anchors every scene.
Direction
Aubert finds poetry in rusted pickups and frozen fields.
Director
Robin Aubert
Jean Lapointe
Grand-Père
Michel Barrette
Père
Patrick Hivon
Fils
Michel Charette
Beau-frère Sylvain
Nicole LeBlanc
Tante Denise
Denise Dubois
Tante Marcelle
Markita Boies
Tante Monique
Johanne-Marie Tremblay
Tante Lise
Micheline Bernard
Tante Georgette
Charlotte Laurier
Tante Louise
Adèle Reinhardt
Tante Jeanne-Mance
Richard Robitaille
Gardien
Emily Shelton
Fille à la cigarette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aubert shot in rural Québec during actual winter, with temperatures so brutal the corpse prop froze solid and had to be thawed between takes.
The film deliberately subverts the Québécois 'road movie' tradition—usually celebratory, here it's a march toward inevitable disappointment, with no Montreal in sight.
CA
