Phantom Life

Phantom Life
FrenchLa Vie fantôme
Directed byJacques Leduc
Written byJacques Leduc
Yvon Rivard
Based onLa Vie fantôme by Danièle Sallenave
Produced byRoger Frappier
StarringRon Lea
Johanne-Marie Tremblay
Pascale Bussières
CinematographyPierre Mignot
Edited byYves Chaput
Production
company
Max Films Productions
Release date
  • August 29, 1992 (1992-08-29) (MWFF)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Phantom Life (French: La Vie fantôme) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jacques Leduc and released in 1992.[1] An adaptation of the novel by Danièle Sallenave, the film stars Ron Lea as Pierre, an academic at the Université de Sherbrooke who is torn between his marriage to Annie (Johanne-Marie Tremblay) and his extramarital affair with the younger Laure (Pascale Bussières).[2]

The film's cast also includes Gabriel Gascon, Rita Lafontaine, Jean-Guy Bouchard and Élise Guilbault.

The film premiered at the 1992 Montreal World Film Festival,[3] where it was named the most popular Canadian film of the festival. Bussières also won the award for Best Actress.[4]

The film received five Genie Award nominations at the 13th Genie Awards, for Best Adapted Screenplay (Leduc and Yvon Rivard), Best Cinematography (Pierre Mignot), Best Art Direction/Production Design (Louise Jobin), Best Costume Design (Michèle Hamel) and Best Sound Editing (Jérôme Décarie, Diane Boucher, Michel Bordeleau, Francine Poirier and Claude Beaugrand).[5]

  1. ^ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Vie fantôme, La – Film de Jacques Leduc". Films du Québec, May 11, 2009.
  2. ^ Bill Brownstein, "Two solitudes ignite when lovers cross linguistic divide". Montreal Gazette, January 22, 1993.
  3. ^ Noel Taylor, "Canadian entries at Montreal festival easier to get into than foreign films". Ottawa Citizen, September 4, 1992.
  4. ^ "Dark Side of Heart takes Filmfest's top prize". Montreal Gazette, September 8, 1992.
  5. ^ "Genie Award nominations". Toronto Star, November 20, 1992.