Alexander Odyssey

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Alexander Odyssey
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French Alexandre le fou
Directed by Pedro Pires
Written byPedro Pires
Josiane Lapointe
Produced byPedro Pires
Sylvia de Angelis
CinematographyPedro Pires
Edited byPedro Pires
Sophie Leblond
Sylvia de Angelis
Music bySylvain Brassard
Gaël Poisson Lemay
Production
company
Pedro Pires Films
Distributed byMaison 4:3
Release date
  • September 15, 2019 (2019-09-15)(FCVQ)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Alexander Odyssey (French : Alexandre le fou) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Pedro Pires and released in 2019. [1] The film premiered at the Quebec City Film Festival on September 15, 2019, before premiering commercially on September 20. [2]

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Plot

The film centres on Alexandre Demard, a man who is at a new crossroads in his life 15 years after first experiencing a mental breakdown which led to his being diagnosed with schizophrenia. [3]

Awards

The film received three Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, for Best Feature Length Documentary, Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Pires) and Best Editing in a Documentary (Pires, Sophie Leblond and Sylvia de Angelis). [4] It also received four Prix Iris nominations at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, for Best Documentary, Best Cinematography in a Documentary, Best Editing in a Documentary and Best Sound in a Documentary. [5] It won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing. [6]

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