Jacques and November
Jacques and November (French: Jacques et novembre) is a 1984 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Beaudry and François Bouvier. The film was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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| Directed by | Jean Beaudry François Bouvier |
| Written by | Jean Beaudry François Bouvier |
| Produced by | François Bouvier Marcel Simard |
| Starring | Jean Beaudry |
| Cinematography | Serge Giguère |
| Edited by | Jean Beaudry |
| Music by | Michel Rivard |
Production company | Les Productions du Lundi Matin |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
The film stars Beaudry as Jacques Landry, a man in his early 30s who is dying of an unspecified incurable disease and documenting his thoughts on mortality in a video diary; simultaneously, his friend Denis (Pierre Rousseau) is trying to make a higher-budget documentary film about him.
Critics largely analyzed the film not as focusing on death as such, but as an affirming and uplifting look at the meaning that friends and family bring to life. Although Jacques Landry's terminal illness was not specified in the film, the LGBT magazine The Body Politic reviewed it as an HIV/AIDS allegory, directly comparing and contrasting its views of mortality with the contemporaneous HIV/AIDS-themed documentary film No Sad Songs.