Everything Is Fine (film)

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Everything Is Fine
French Tout est parfait
Directed by Yves-Christian Fournier
Written byYves-Christian Fournier
Guillaume Vigneault
Produced by Martine Beauchemin
Nicole Robert
Starring Maxime Dumontier
Chloé Bourgeois
Cinematography Sara Mishara
Edited by Yvann Thibaudeau
Music by Patrick Lavoie
Loco Locass
Production
company
Distributed by Les Films Séville
Entertainment One
Release date
  • March 1, 2008 (2008-03-01)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Everything Is Fine (French : Tout est parfait) is a French Canadian film directed by Yves-Christian Fournier. It tells the story of a young man trying to cope with the simultaneous suicide of his four friends.

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Reactions

"Tout est parfait is the best film of 2008, and one of the most powerful to come out of this province in years." (The Gazette)

Awards

The film won the 2009 Claude Jutra Award for best feature film by a first-time director at the 29th Genie Awards. [1]

Cast

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References

  1. "Pre-Genie Awards Announced" Archived 2009-06-01 at the Wayback Machine , Northern Stars.