Heaven
Released March 17th 2000
A film by Jean-Sébastien Lord
Produced by Claude Gagnon and Samuel Gagnon
With Garance Clavel, Jocelyn Blanchard, Julien Poulin, Sylvie Moreau, Sonia Vachon, François L'Écuyer and Micheline Lanctôt
Heaven is a place with crumbling ceilings, an aging Jesus, and angels and saints entertained by human sexuality. On earth, Christmas, 1999, Jacques, who's dying of cancer, meets Sophie, pregnant and abandoned. Her babies and his death are due in the spring. Jacques runs a cabaret facing bankruptcy because his landlord insists on a 15-minute speech about Jesus every evening by the boring Bernard, and all the customers leave. Jacques prays for Bernard's removal: Heaven arranges a car crash. Jacques keeps a tape recorder handy, narrating his final days, focused on composing memorable last words. In Heaven, the dead Bernard keeps watch over Jacques and Sophie, with saving effect.
CANADA | 1999 | COMEDY | 92 MINUTES
FRENCH AUDIO AND SUBTITLES
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