Mémoires affectives (2004)

Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.

Director:

Francis Leclerc

Writers:

Marcel Beaulieu, Francis Leclerc

Stars:

Roy Dupuis, Guy Thauvette, Rosa Zacharie

7 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Roy Dupuis	...	Alexandre Tourneur
Guy Thauvette	...	Joseph
Rosa Zacharie	...	Pauline Maksoud
Maka Kotto	...	Docteur Ba Kobhio
Line Rodier	...	Jeune infirmière / Young Nurse
Nathalie Coupal	...	Michelle Tourneur
Karine Lagueux	...	Sylvaine Tourneur
Stéphane Archambault	...	François
Robert Lalonde	...	Agent Drolet
Martin Héroux	...	Détective Jobin
Johanne-Marie Tremblay	...	Infirmière / Nurse
Francis Martineau	...	Physiothérapeute
Maxime Dumontier	...	Joseph jeune
Alexandre Harvey-Cormier	...	Alexandre jeune
Jean-François Gaudet	...	Père Noël

Storyline

Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.

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Plot Keywords:

coma | father daughter relationship | winter | mother daughter relationship | husband wife relationship | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

French

Release Date:

10 January 2007 (Belgium)

Also Known As:

Looking for Alexander

Filming Locations:

Baie Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Palomar Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min 100 min (Québec) 100 min (Ontario)

Color:

Color

User Reviews

A baffling script that somehow works as cinema----temporarily

Quebec in winter is a powerful setting for this, the umpteenth amnesia movie. Nothing makes sense for the hero after someone tries to pull the plug on him while he's in a coma and only succeeds in waking him up. We are equally baffled, and frankly we are not enlightened much in the ensuing 90 minutes. When Alex demands of his doctor why his personal circle is behaving in completely contradictory fashion, we hang on his every word. "You are picking up on their deeper feelings" is all the doctor can offer. Evidently, he's as baffled as any of us. Alex does have a breakthrough of sorts, when he penetrates a deep memory that had nothing to do with him going into a coma, but occurred about 34 years earlier. Er, as I said...it's baffling. Other big-grossing and award-winning pictures have had ludicrously unsatisfactory denouements, e.g. Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, but Memoires Affectives takes the cake. How the director managed to persuade the producers to finance this confusing confection is not clear. Probably Roy Dupuis could appear for 90 minutes asleep in bed and someone would cough up a few million. In spite of being so utterly daft, the picture sucks you in engagingly for its duration --- but don't waste any time trying to work it out afterwards.