And the Birds Rained Down

And the Birds Rained Down
Film poster
FrenchIl pleuvait des oiseaux
Directed byLouise Archambault
Written byLouise Archambault
Based onIl pleuvait des oiseaux by Jocelyne Saucier
Produced byGinette Petit
StarringRémy Girard
Gilbert Sicotte
Andrée Lachapelle
Ève Landry
CinematographyMathieu Laverdière
Edited byRichard Comeau
Production
company
Les Films Outsiders
Distributed byMK2 Mile End
Indie Sales
Release date
  • September 7, 2019 (2019-09-07) (TIFF)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

And the Birds Rained Down (French: Il pleuvait des oiseaux) is a 2019 Canadian drama film, directed by Louise Archambault.[1] An adaptation of the novel by Jocelyne Saucier, the film centres on a group of senior citizens living off-the-grid in a wilderness setting, whose orderly and quiet lives are threatened by changes in their personal group dynamics after the death of the group leader and the arrival of a new outsider.[2]

The film's cast includes Rémy Girard, Gilbert Sicotte, Andrée Lachapelle, Ève Landry, Louise Portal, Éric Robidoux, Marie-Ginette Guay and Kenneth Welsh. It was Lachapelle's final film role before her death, and one of the last film roles for Welsh before his.

  1. ^ "La bande-annonce du film Il pleuvait des oiseaux dévoilée". Ici Radio-Canada. July 30, 2019.
  2. ^ "Une première bande-annonce dévoilée pour "Il pleuvait des oiseaux"". Le Journal de Montréal. April 25, 2019.