Michel Langlois is a

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film director and screenwriter from

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."Michel Langlois : le cinéma du non-dit"
''

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'', March 6, 2009. He is a two-time nominee for the

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for Best Screenplay, garnering nominations at the

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in 1985 for '' A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel)'' and at the

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in 1991 for '' The Savage Woman (La Demoiselle sauvage)''. His other screenwriting credits include '' Lessons on Life (Trois pommes à côté du sommeil)'', ''

The Night of the Visitor ''The Night of the Visitor'' () is a Canadian drama short film, directed by Laurent Gagliardi and released in 1990. The film centres on the residents of a small apartment building, depicting their own personal dramas on the night that a young man ...

(La nuit du visiteur)'' and ''

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''. As a director, he made the short films ''Sortie 234'' and ''Lettre à mon père'' before releasing his feature debut, ''

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'', in 1993."Cap Tourmente"
'' Playback'', September 13, 1993. Following ''Cap Tourmente'', however, Langlois has concentrated exclusively on

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s. His first documentary, released in 2002, was ''Le fil cassé'', an exploration of his own family

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. The film, whose title translates as ''The Broken Thread'', was inspired by the fact that as a

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man he would not be fathering children, and thus documenting his ancestry would be his primary contribution to the family history. He followed up with ''Mère et monde'', a documentary about the family whose small inn in Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive had inspired ''Cap Tourmente'', in 2009; and ''Anne des vingt jours'', a biographical documentary about writer

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, in 2013."Anne, sa sœur Anne"
''Gazette des Femmes'', May 13, 2013.

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