Nelligan
Released September 27th 1991
A film by Robert Favreau
Produced by Marie-Andrée Vinet
With Marc St-Pierre, Michel Comeau, Lorraine Pintal, Luc Morissette, Gabriel Arcand and David La Haye
A fiction film about the life of Québec poet Émile Nelligan, which focuses on his troubled relationship with his mother and estranged relationship his father, a scholarly author, throughout the most important moments of his life.
CANADA | 1991 | BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA | 104 MINUTES
FRENCH AUDIO AND SUBTITLES
“You have to run to see this movie! This is neither a trial nor an opera - it is the vibration of a life burned by the inner fire of poetry; the sincere testimony of a national genius. Nelligan is a movie that is will forever be a tribute to Québécois cinema.”
