Simon and Marianne

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Simon and Marianne
French Simon et Marianne
Directed by Pier-Luc Latulippe
Martin Fournier
Produced byPier-Luc Latulippe
Martin Fournier
Starring Simon Roy
Marianne Marquis-Gravel
Cinematography Ariel Méthot
Edited by Jean-François Lord
Music byDemain Déluge
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Running time
71 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Simon and Marianne (French : Simon et Marianne) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Pier-Luc Latulippe and Martin Fournier and released in 2024. [1] The film centres on author Simon Roy and his wife, Marianne Marquis-Gravel, as they go through Roy's final months after being diagnosed with incurable terminal brain cancer. [2]

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The film premiered in June 2024 at the Sheffield DocFest in the United Kingdom, [3] and had its Canadian premiere at the Montreal International Documentary Festival. [4]

Awards

The film won the Flinders University International Documentary Award at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival. [5]

The film was shortlisted for the 2025 Prix collégial du cinéma québécois. [6]

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