A Way of Life (2019 film)

A Way of Life
FrenchUne manière de vivre
Directed byMicheline Lanctôt
Written byMicheline Lanctôt
Produced byAndré Gagnon
StarringLaurent Lucas
Gabrielle Lazure
Rose-Marie Perreault
CinematographySimon-Pierre Gingras
Edited byMichel Arcand
Production
company
Lycaon Pictus
Distributed byMaison 4:3
Release date
  • October 26, 2019 (2019-10-26) (FCIAT)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

A Way of Life (French: Une manière de vivre) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Micheline Lanctôt and released in 2019.[1] The film stars Laurent Lucas as Joseph, a philosophy professor who is attending an academic conference on Baruch Spinoza in Quebec, where he becomes drawn into a love triangle between Colette (Gabrielle Lazure), a recent widow, and her daughter Gabrielle (Rose-Marie Perreault), who is secretly working as a prostitute.[2]

The cast also includes Robin Aubert, Paul Doucet, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine and Jacqueline Van de Geer in supporting roles.

The film premiered October 26, 2019 at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival,[3] before going into commercial release on November 1.[2]

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Une manière de vivre – Film de Micheline Lanctôt". Films du Québec, October 27, 2019.
  2. ^ a b François Lévesque, "«Une manière de vivre»: élusive satisfaction intérieure". Le Devoir, November 1, 2019.
  3. ^ François Lévesque, "Micheline Lanctôt, une manière de tenir". Le Devoir, October 25, 2019.