Jacques and November

{{short description|1984 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox film | name = Jacques and November | image = | caption = | director = [[Jean Beaudry]]<br>[[François Bouvier]] | producer = François Bouvier<br>Marcel Simard{{sfn|Turner|1987|p=392}} | writer = Jean Beaudry<br>François Bouvier | starring = Jean Beaudry | music = [[Michel Rivard (musician)|Michel Rivard]] | cinematography = [[Serge Giguère]] | editing = Jean Beaudry | studio = Les Productions du Lundi Matin | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1984|10|26|df=yes}} | runtime = 72 minutes | country = Canada | language = French | budget = }}

'''''Jacques and November''''' ({{langx|fr|'''Jacques et novembre'''}}) is a 1984 Canadian [[drama film]] directed by [[Jean Beaudry]] and [[François Bouvier]].<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/126611/Jacques-et-Novembre/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610205908/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/126611/Jacques-et-Novembre/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 June 2015 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Hal Erickson |title=Jacques and November |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2015 |access-date=17 November 2013 }}</ref> The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]] at the [[58th Academy Awards]], but was not accepted as a nominee.<ref>Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</ref>

The film stars Beaudry as Jacques Landry, a man in his early 30s who is dying of an unspecified incurable disease and documenting his thoughts on mortality in a video diary; simultaneously, his friend Denis (Pierre Rousseau) is trying to make a higher-budget documentary film about him.<ref>"Movie within movie depicts dying days". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', May 16, 1986.</ref>

Critics largely analyzed the film not as focusing on death as such, but as an affirming and uplifting look at the meaning that friends and family bring to life.<ref>"Joyous ode to life in tale of dying man". ''[[Ottawa Citizen]]'', May 30, 1986.</ref> Although Jacques Landry's terminal illness was not specified in the film, the LGBT magazine ''[[The Body Politic (magazine)|The Body Politic]]'' reviewed it as an [[HIV/AIDS]] allegory, directly comparing and contrasting its views of mortality with the contemporaneous HIV/AIDS-themed documentary film ''[[No Sad Songs]]''.<ref>"Learning to Talk Life and Death". ''[[The Body Politic (magazine)|The Body Politic]]'', November 1985. p. 39.</ref>

==Production== [[Jean Beaudry]] and [[François Bouvier]] directed and wrote the film. [[Serge Giguère]] did the film photography while Claude de Maisonneuve and Bouvier did the video photography. Beaudry edited the film. [[Michel Rivard]] did the music for the film.{{sfn|Turner|1987|p=392}}

The film was initially given a budget of $50,000, but it grew to $225,000. $25,000 came from [[Telefilm Canada]] and $7,000 from the [[Société de développement des entreprises culturelles|Quebec Institute of Cinema]]. $13,000 was used to shoot the film in Montreal over the course of 30 days between 23 November 1981 and 13 September 1982.{{sfn|Pallister1995|p=5}}{{sfn|Turner|1987|p=392}}

==Release== Cinéma Libre distributed the film in Quebec and it premiered at the [[Festival du nouveau cinéma]] on 26 October 1984. It was released theatrically on 1 November.{{sfn|Turner|1987|p=392}}

==Awards== The film was one of two selected for the Société générale du cinéma du Québec's annual awards, alongside [[André Melançon]]'s ''[[The Dog Who Stopped the War]] (La Guerre des tuques)''.<ref>"Quebec filmmakers share $200,000". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', March 18, 1986.</ref> The award's prize consisted of a $100,000 investment in the production of the directors' next films.<ref>"Quebec directors vying for prizes". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', March 6, 1986.</ref>

The film received a [[Genie Award]] nomination for [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Achievement in Music – Original Song|Best Original Song]], for [[Michel Rivard (musician)|Michel Rivard]]'s "Le temps nous dépasse".<ref>"Scorecard of major nominees for tonight's Genie Awards on TV". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', March 20, 1986.</ref>

==Cast== * [[Jean Beaudry]] as Jacques Landry * [[Léa-Marie Cantin]] as Monique * [[Carole Chatel]] * [[Carole Fréchette]] as Pierrette * [[Pat Gagnon]] as Visiteur à l'hôpital * [[Pierre Rousseau (actor)|Pierre Rousseau]] as Denis Langlois

==See also== * [[List of submissions to the 58th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]] * [[List of Canadian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==Works cited== * {{cite book|last=Pallister |first=Janis |title=The Cinema of Quebec: Masters in Their Own House |publisher=[[Associated University Presses]] |date=1995 |isbn=0838635628}} * {{cite book|editor-last=Turner |editor-first=D. John |title=Canadian Feature Film Index: 1913-1985 |publisher=[[Canadian Film Institute]] |date=1987 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianfeaturef0000turn |isbn=0660533642}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0087494|Jacques and November}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacques And November}} [[Category:1984 films]] [[Category:1984 drama films]] [[Category:Canadian drama films]] [[Category:Films directed by François Bouvier]] [[Category:Films about death]] [[Category:Films directed by Jean Beaudry]] [[Category:French-language Canadian films]] [[Category:1984 Canadian films]]