LA DONATION
LEGACY, THE
Doctor Rainville, an old country doctor who has a deep attachment to his patients, is about to retire and is looking for a successor. Jeanne Dion, an emergency doctor from Montréal, agrees to come to Normétal to replace him for a few weeks, without considering staying any longer than necessary in the remote Quebéc village. Normétal is a town in decline whose only large employer, a mine, closed three decades ago. Life is hard there, and a doctor's relationship with his patients is much closer than Jeanne is used to after her experience in a large hospital's emergency ward. When the old doctor dies, Jeanne must decide whether to stay and accept a responsibility that comes with much more commitment than she had planned on.
Why did I revisit the character of Jeanne, the doctor from La Neuvaine? That film ended with a kind of stasis, in which all the questions raised remained unanswered. Jeanne, having been cured of her death wish, had decided to live. But how was she going to live? How would she give meaning to the rest of her life? In La Donation, Jeanne answers those questions by changing her life, leaving everything behind, giving of herself. (Bernard Emond)
- Élise Guilbault - Jeanne Dion
- Jacques Godin - Doktor Rainville
- Eric Hoziel - Pierre Grégoire
- Françoise Graton - Madame Laplante
- Angele Coutu - Schwester Gaétane Rainville
- Monique Gosselin - Madame Cholette
- Bernard Emond
- Sara Mishara
- Hugo Brochu
- Martin Allard
- Stéphane Bergeron
- Louise Côté
- Robert Marcel Lepage
- Gaudeline Sauriol
- Sophie Lefebvre
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