Anna's Garden

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Anna's Garden
French Le Jardin d'Anna
Directed by Alain Chartrand
Written byAlain Chartrand
Diane Cailhier
Based onMona et Je t'aime la vie by Ginette Bureau
Produced by Robert Ménard
Starring Danielle Proulx
Roger Léger
Jessica Barker
CinematographyMichel Caron
Edited byYves Chaput
Music by François Dompierre
Production
company
Les Productions Videofilms
Distributed byT.V-films Associés
Release date
  • September 3, 1992 (1992-09-03)(FFM)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Anna's Garden (French : Le Jardin d'Anna) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Alain Chartrand and released in 1992. [1] The film centres on a family whose 11-year-old daughter Anna (Jessica Barker) is battling childhood leukemia. [2]

The cast also includes Danielle Proulx and Roger Léger as Anna's parents Louise and Paul and Alexandrine Latendresse as the younger Anna in flashbacks, as well as Vincent Bolduc, Marie-Claude Lefebvre, Carmen Ferlan, Jacques Girard, Steve Gendron, Christine Anthony, André Dostal and Robert Patenaude in supporting roles. [1]

The film premiered at the 1992 Montreal World Film Festival. [3] It was subsequently screened at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix du Public. [4]

It was distributed principally as a television film, airing as an episode of the arts anthology series Les Beaux Dimanches in January 1993. [1]

The film received nine Gémeaux Award nominations in 1993, [5] with Pierre Saindon winning the award for Best Makeup and Hair.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Charles-Henri Ramond, "Jardin d’Anna, Le – Film d’Alain Chartrand". Films du Québec, January 24, 2009.
  2. "Les métastases de l'angoisse". Le Devoir , January 27, 1993.
  3. "Today's screenings at the Montreal World Film Festival". Montreal Gazette , September 3, 1992.
  4. Diane Cailhier, "Alain Chartrand". The Canadian Encyclopedia , September 23, 2008.
  5. Brendan Kelly, "Gemeaux to try to fall". Variety , August 18, 1993.