Still Night, Still Light () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sophie Goyette and released in 2016.Manon Dumais, "«Mes nuits feront écho»: rêver mieux". Le Devoir, January 9, 2017. The film stars Éliane Préfontaine as Éliane, a woman dealing with depression who temporarily abandons her life in Montreal and travels to Mexico City, where she stays at a home owned by Romes (Gerardo Trejoluna) and takes a job teaching his son to play piano; Romes, meanwhile, is planning to accompany his ailing father Pablo (Felipe Casanova) on a trip to Asia which may be Pablo's last major dream in his life.Kiva Reardon, "'Your Film Will Always Travel More Than You': Director Sophie Goyette on Independent Distribution". Filmmaker, December 12, 2017.
The film's cast also includes Marie-Ginette Guay and Monique Spaziani.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Mes nuits feront écho – Film de Sophie Goyette". Films du Québec, December 28, 2016. It is thematically related to, but not a direct remake of, Goyette's 2011 short film La Ronde, which also starred Préfontaine.
The film premiered at the 2016 Festival du nouveau cinéma,Jean-Baptiste Hervé, "LES ESSENTIELS DU FNC 2016". Voir, October 12, 2016. before opening commercially in January 2017.André Duchesne, "Mes nuits feront écho: trois histoires de transmission". La Presse, January 13, 2017.
The film was a nominee for the DGC Discovery Award at the 2017 Directors Guild of Canada awards.Barry Hertz, "Directors Guild of Canada reveals long list for Discovery Award". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017. It was shortlisted for the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2018."Le problème d'infiltration remporte le Prix collégial du cinéma québécois". Ici Radio-Canada, March 26, 2018.
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