The Great Darkened Days

The Great Darkened Days
Film poster
La grande noirceur
Directed byMaxime Giroux
Written bySimon Beaulieu
Maxime Giroux
Alexandre Laferrière
Produced bySylvain Corbeil
Nancy Grant
StarringMartin Dubreuil
Sarah Gadon
CinematographySara Mishara
Edited byMathieu Bouchard-Malo
Music byOlivier Alary
Johannes Malfatti
Production
company
Metafilms
Release date
  • September 8, 2018 (2018-09-08)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
French

The Great Darkened Days (French: La grande noirceur) is a 2018 Canadian drama film, directed by Maxime Giroux.[1] Set during World War II, the film centres on Philippe (Martin Dubreuil), a draft dodger from Quebec who is living as a drifter and Charlie Chaplin impersonator in the United States.[1] Despite its setting, however, the film makes use of some deliberate anachronisms, including a scene where R.E.M.'s contemporary song "Everybody Hurts" plays on the radio.[2]

The film's cast also includes Sarah Gadon, Cody Fern, Luzer Twersky, Romain Duris, Reda Kateb and Lise Roy.

The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Dolan à la tête de la cohorte québécoise au TIFF". Le Devoir. August 2, 2018.
  2. ^ "The Great Darkened Days is an expansive and expensive movie". Cult MTL. January 23, 2019.
  3. ^ "TIFF 2018: Rob Stewart, Denys Arcand, Jennifer Baichwal films among Canadian titles". Now. August 1, 2018.