Tideline (film)

Tideline
FrenchLittoral
Directed byWajdi Mouawad
Written byWajdi Mouawad
Pascal Sanchez
Based onTideline (Littoral) by Wajdi Mouawad
Produced byBrigitte Germain
Pascal Judelewicz
StarringSteve Laplante
Gilles Renaud
Isabelle Leblanc
CinematographyRomain Winding
Edited byYvann Thibaudeau
Music byMathieu Farhoud-Dionne
Amon Tobin
Production
companies
EGM Productions
Les Films de Cinéma
Distributed byTVA Films
Release date
  • September 13, 2004 (2004-09-13) (TIFF)
Running time
96 min
CountriesCanada
France
LanguageFrench

Tideline (French: Littoral) is a Canadian-French drama film, directed by Wajdi Mouawad and released in 2004.[1] The film stars Steve Laplante as Wahab, a Lebanese Canadian man whose estranged father (Gilles Renaud) dies, leading Wahab to undertake a trip to Lebanon to bury his father's body in his home country, only to run into complications that send him wandering around the country and reveal aspects of his father's life that he never knew.[2]

The film was adapted from Mouawad's own stage play, and was his first foray into film direction.[3]

Its cast also includes Miro Lacasse, Isabelle Leblanc, David Boutin, Pascal Contamine, Manon Brunelle, Estelle Clareton, Thérèse Boulad, Hani Mattar, Abla Farhoud, Pierre Curzi and Stéphane F. Jacques.

The film premiered in September 2004 at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival,[4] before premiering commercially in November.[2]

  1. ^ David Rooney, "Tideline". Variety, October 12, 2014.
  2. ^ a b Charles-Henri Ramond, "Littoral – Film de Wadji Mouawad". Films du Québec, January 22, 2009.
  3. ^ Marie-Claude Loiselle, "Littoral de Wajdi Mouawad: Au pays du silence". 24 images, Iss. 119 (Oct/Nov 2004). pp. 12-13.
  4. ^ Katherine Monk, "Spotlight on Canadians: First-time directors get new showcase for their films". Ottawa Citizen, September 6, 2004.