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Adrien

Renee Beaulieu
2015, 87 min.

In French with English subtitles.

Adrien, who runs a garage in a small town on the St. Lawrence, has been waiting five years for a kidney transplant. While he waits, his life is on hold. He does all he can to keep his garage and his marriage going, despite his long hours of dialysis several times a week and ebbing energy. But when a young man from a remote village is hired to work at the garage, it sets off a chain of events that turn his life upside-down and reveal some unexpected and disturbing things about him.

Director's Statement

Is being in charge of your life a right? Are living and dying freedoms, duties or responsibilities? How should we live? How should we love? How should we die? These questions are woven into the story of Adrien, who suffers from kidney failure. He runs a garage in Trois-Pistoles, a small town on the St. Lawrence where people who seem ordinary, but aren't: each love story, each life, each destiny is unique.


Themes: World Cinema, Family, Relationships.