Portrait of a perfect stranger [videorecording (DVD)] = Portrait d'un parfait inconnu / directed by Claude Guilmain.

Portrait of a perfect stranger [videorecording (DVD)] = Portrait d'un parfait inconnu / directed by Claude Guilmain.

Alternate Title
Portrait d'un parfait inconnu

Publication Date
2006

Publication Information
[Montreal] : National Film Board of Canada,

Edition
Widescreen ed.

Physical Description
1 videodisc(ca 21 min.)

Subject Term
Alcoholics -- Family relationships.
 
Alcoholics -- Biography.
 
Motion picture producers and directors -- Canada -- Biography.
 
Documentary films -- Canada.

Genre
Biographical films.

Additional Contributors
Guilmain, Claude,

Summary
In this moving short film, Claude Guilmain goes to meet a stranger: his brother. A year after seeing his brother for the last time, the filmmaker encounters him on his deathbed. Portrait of a perfect stranger delicately retraces the brief life of a man, cut short by alcoholism and by the cancer that strikes just as he is getting himself back together.

Language
English

General Note
DVD.
 
Languages: English, French.


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall NumberStatus
Corner Brook (WCB)Adult NFic DVD NFBAdult Non-Fiction DVD NFB362.2923 P83Checked In