Old Buddies

Old Buddies
FrenchLes Vieux chums
Directed byClaude Gagnon
Screenplay byClaude Gagnon
Produced byBahija Essoussi-Gagnon
Claude Gagnon
Samuel Gagnon
Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon
StarringPatrick Labbé
Paul Doucet
CinematographyMichel St-Martin
Edited byClaude Gagnon
Music byDaniel Toussaint
Production
company
Objectif 9
Distributed byMaison 4:3
Release date
  • November 1, 2020 (2020-11-01) (FCIAT)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Old Buddies (French: Les Vieux chums) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Claude Gagnon and released in 2020.[1] The film stars Patrick Labbé as Pierrot, a man returning to his hometown of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, following several years of living in Morocco, to visit his family and friends after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, and Paul Doucet as Pierrot's childhood friend Jacques, of whom Pierrot has a special request to help him end his life.[2]

The cast also includes Luka Limoges, Marie-Pier Labrecque, Stéphan Côté, Luc Proulx, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Michel Olivier Girard, Geneviève Rochette and Pierre Curzi.

The film premiered on November 1, 2020 at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival,[3] before premiering commercially on May 21, 2021.[4]

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Vieux chums, Les – Film de Claude Gagnon". Films du Québec, May 24, 2021.
  2. ^ Maxime Demers, "«Les vieux chums» : une touchante sincérité". Le Journal de Montréal, May 20, 2021.
  3. ^ Maxime Prévost Durand, "Claude Gagnon : enfin une première pour Les vieux chums". Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe, October 15, 2020.
  4. ^ Luc Boulanger, "La mort en douce". La Presse, May 21, 2021.