Ocean (film)

Ocean
Océan
Directed byCatherine Martin
Written byCatherine Martin
Produced byClaude Cartier
CinematographyCarlos Ferrand
Edited byNatalie Lamoureaux
Music byRobert Marcel Lepage
Production
company
Les Productions Virage
Release date
  • 2002 (2002)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Ocean (French: Océan) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Catherine Martin and released in 2002.[1] Centred on the Océan passenger train from Montreal to Halifax, the film mixes footage from a trip on the train with interviews on the cultural and historical significance of train travel, touching particularly on themes of memory and nostalgia for past times when long-distance travel by rail was much more common than it is in the 21st century.[2]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2002.[3]

  1. ^ "Trois temps pour Catherine Martin". Panorama Cinéma, August 31, 2010.
  2. ^ Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk, The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. ISBN 9781554581955.
  3. ^ "Canada's Top Ten 2002". Film Studies Association of Canada, January 21, 2003.