Lessons on Life

{{short description|1989 Canadian film directed by Jacques Leduc}} {{Infobox film | name = Lessons on Life | native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Trois pommes à côté du sommeil}} | image = | caption = Film poster | director = [[Jacques Leduc]] | producer = Suzanne Dussault Pierre Latour [[René Malo]] | writer = Jacques Leduc [[Michel Langlois (director)|Michel Langlois]] | starring = Normand Chouinard [[Paule Baillargeon]] | music = René Lussier Jean Derome | cinematography = Pierre Letarte | editing = Pierre Bernier | studio = Malofilm Productions | distributor = | runtime = 98 minutes | released = {{film date|1989|08|24|[[Montreal World Film Festival|MWFF]]}} | country = Canada | language = French | budget = }} '''''Lessons on Life''''' ({{langx|fr|Trois pommes à côté du sommeil}}) is a Canadian drama film, directed by [[Jacques Leduc]] and released in 1989.<ref name=fdq>Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/trois-pommes-sommeil-jacques-leduc/ "Trois pommes à côté du sommeil – Film de Jacques Leduc"]. ''Films du Québec'', March 12, 2009.</ref> The film stars Normand Chouinard as an unnamed magazine journalist who is reflecting on his life, and the important influence of three women on it, on the occasion of his 40th birthday.<ref name=pratley>[[Gerald Pratley]], ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}. p. 44.</ref>

The cast also includes [[Paule Baillargeon]], Paule Marier, [[Hubert Reeves]], [[Marcel Sabourin]], [[Guy Nadon]], Marie-Josée Gauthier, [[Frédérique Collin]] and [[France Castel]].

The film won the [[Prix Luc-Perreault]] from the [[Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma]] at the [[Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois]] in 1990.<ref>"Prizes awarded for Quebec films". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 12, 1990.</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0098516}}

[[Category:1989 films]] [[Category:1989 drama films]] [[Category:Canadian drama films]] [[Category:Films shot in Quebec]] [[Category:Films set in Quebec]] [[Category:Films directed by Jacques Leduc]] [[Category:French-language Canadian films]] [[Category:1989 Canadian films]]