''Exile'' () is a 2012 Canadian drama film, directed by
Charles-Olivier Michaud
Charles-Olivier Michaud is a Canadian writer, director and producer from Saint-Romuald, Quebec. He has worked in English and French language films. His directing credits include '' 4 Minute Mile'', '' On the Beat (Sur le rythme)'' and '' Snow and ...
Haiti
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who is left alone after his father is kidnapped by government forces; learning that his mother whom he had long been told was dead is in fact still alive and merely ran off to the United States, he embarks on a quest to find her, and is helped by various "guardian angels" as he travels to
Miami
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,
New York City
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and
Montreal
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in his search.Brendan Kelly, "Haitian boy searches in silence; Protectors watch over him in quest to find mother". ''
Montreal Gazette
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'', June 27, 2014.
The film's cast also includes
Paul Doucet
Paul Doucet (born 1970) is a Canadian actor known for his portrayal of Jean Duceppe in '' Jean Duceppe''.
Early life
Doucet was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1970. He studied drama at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Career
His mo ...
Stephen McHattie
Stephen McHattie Smith (born February 3, 1947) is a Canadian actor. Since beginning his professional career in 1970, he has amassed over 200 film and television credits. He won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in '' ...
, Maxime Dumontier and
Ralph Prosper Ralph Prosper is a Canadian actor from Quebec, best known for his regular role as police reception clerk François Asselin in the television series ''District 31''.
He received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Live Acti ...
, and includes narration by writer and broadcaster Stanley Péan.
Brendan Kelly of the ''
Montreal Gazette
''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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'' reviewed the film favourably, writing that although the film's plot posed possible
suspension of disbelief
Suspension of disbelief is the avoidance—often described as willing—of critical thinking and logic in understanding something that is unreal or impossible in reality, such as something in a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe i ...
problems in the way Samuel is continually protected in his journey, the film was clearly meant to be seen as an
allegory
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for Samuel's passage into manhood.
The film premiered at the
Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival
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in 2012, before opening commercially in June 2014.
Michel Corriveau
Michel Corriveau (born June 29, 1962) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores from Quebec. He has received multiple nominations and awards throughout his career for Canadian and international films and TV productions
Biography
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received a
Jutra Award Jutras may have several meanings :
* Claude Jutra: an award-winning French Canadian filmmaker
**Jutra Award: Film awards formerly given in the Canadian province of Quebec, named after the filmmaker and now known as Prix Iris
**The Claude Jutra Awa ...