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Bernard Émond

Writer, Director, Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born September 1, 1951 (73 years)
Bernard Émond (born 1951) is a Canadian director, screenwriter, novelist and essayist working in the French-language. He studied anthropology at university and lived for several years in the Canadian north where he worked for the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation. He began his film career making documentaries, later moving to feature-length films, all of which have been shot in Quebec. He is noted for the humanistic, sometimes spiritual depth of his films, in particular his trilogy of feature films (2007, 2009, 2012) based on the three Christian virtues, faith, hope, and charity. Other themes in his work include human dignity and frailty, and cultural loss. He describes himself as an agnostic and a "conservative socialist."
Known For
  • The Necessities of Life
  • 8:17 p.m. Darling Street
  • The Novena
  • The Legacy
  • Requiem for a Handsome Bastard
  • The Woman Who Drinks
  • Contre toute espérance
  • Tout ce que tu possèdes
  • Octobre
  • Le journal d'un vieil homme
  • A Respectable Woman
  • Pour vivre ici
  • Whoever Dies, Dies in Pain

Filmography

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