Looking for Eternity

{{Infobox film | name = Looking for Eternity | native_name = {{infobox name module|fr|Portion d'éternité}} | image = | alt = | caption = | director = [[Robert Favreau]] | screenplay = Robert Favreau | producer = Marie-Andrée Vinet | starring = [[Marc Messier]]<br>[[Danielle Proulx]]<br>[[Paul Savoie]] | music = Marie Bernard | cinematography = [[Guy Dufaux]] | editing = [[Hélène Girard]] | studio = Les Productions du regard | distributor = Prima Films | released = {{film date|1989|8||[[Montreal World Film Festival|FFM]]}} | runtime = 106 minutes | country = Canada | language = French }}

'''''Looking for Eternity''''' ({{langx|fr|Portion d'éternité}}) is a Canadian science fiction drama film, directed by [[Robert Favreau]] and released in 1989.<ref name=pratley>[[Gerald Pratley]], ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}. p. 129.</ref> The film stars [[Paul Savoie]] as Antoine, a doctor running a fertility clinic; after Pierre ([[Marc Messier]]) and Marie ([[Danielle Proulx]]), an infertile couple who were clients of his clinic, are killed in a car accident, he is drawn into a legal battle with Pierre's father ([[Gilles Pelletier]]), who wants their embryos destroyed, while Antoine himself wants to use them to test his theory that a form of [[immortality]] can be achieved through [[cloning]].<ref>Mary Alemany-Galway, "Robert Favreau's Portion d'éternité". ''[[Cinema Canada]]'', November 1989.</ref>

The cast also includes [[Patricia Nolin]] as Hélène, a government agent investigating Antoine's clinic, as well as Maryse Gagné, Raymond Cloutier, [[Johanne-Marie Tremblay]], Daniel Gadouas, Hélène Mercier and Mark Hellman in supporting roles.

==Production and distribution== The film was Favreau's narrative feature debut, after several documentary films.<ref>Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/portion-eternite-robert-favreau/ "Portion d’éternité – Film de Robert Favreau"]. ''Films du Québec'', February 5, 2009.</ref> It premiered at the 1989 [[Montreal World Film Festival]],<ref>"Star-studded lineup set for Montreal film festival". ''[[Edmonton Journal]]'', August 3, 1989.</ref> where it won the award for Best Canadian Film and Proulx won the award for Best Actress.<ref>"Drama about Soviet youth prisons wins top prize". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', September 5, 1989.</ref>

==Critical response== Pat Donnelly of the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'' reviewed the film negatively, writing that "at its best, Portion d'éternité is a quasi-documentary that dares to go where no legislator wants to - into the ethical questions surrounding reproductive technology. At its worst, it's a sensationalistic science-fiction [[téléroman]] on the trendy subject of in-vitro fertilization."<ref>Pat Donnelly, "Baby-factory fantasy is a stillborn tale". ''[[Montreal Gazette]]'', September 2, 1989.</ref>

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== External links == * {{IMDb title|0098107}}

[[Category:1989 films]] [[Category:1989 drama films]] [[Category:1989 science fiction films]] [[Category:Canadian science fiction drama films]] [[Category:1989 French-language films]] [[Category:French-language Canadian films]] [[Category:Films directed by Robert Favreau]] [[Category:1989 Canadian films]]