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The Happy Shipwreck: The era of emptiness in a post-Christian society

DURATION: 45 min GENRE: Documentary ORIGIN: Quebec

THE HAPPY SINKING,

A DOCUMENTARY ON THE EMPTY ERA OF OUR POST-CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES, WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF MANY FRENCH AND QUEBEC INTELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS

Summary of the film The Happy Shipwreck is a deep and human documentary film about the meaning of life and our values. Through the eyes of Quebec and French personalities, it addresses essential questions, never explored in this way here. Denys Arcand, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Ginette Reno, Stéphane Archambault, Pierre Maisonneuve and many others, deliver their very personal reflections on the quest for meaning, spirituality, God. After having liquidated all forms of faith, could it be, as Stéphane Laporte thinks, that we are currently witnessing, in Quebec, a “return to fundamental things”, a “spiritual renewal”? Faced with the futile and frivolous of a utilitarian world, faced with immediacy, ready-to-wear, L'Heureux Naufrage questions the foundations of our values ​​and our beliefs. He puts words around big questions that concern us all and suggests making peace with our religious heritage. An inspiring and touching film, constructed through encounters. “The reaction is always strong when I present extracts from the film. It provokes silences, smiles, it soothes. For me, this is proof that The Happy Shipwreck is deeply relevant. It is a universal film that touches all Quebec generations. It is a return to the essential, the proposition of personal introspection, but also of society, and I think that the moment has never been so conducive to these reflections. » — Guillaume Tremblay, director. The production of L'Heureux Naufrage was possible thanks to a crowdfunding campaign which raised more than sixty thousand dollars. L'Heureux Naufrage was presented at the 2014 World Film Festival and will be broadcast by Radio-Canada, on Grands Reportages on April 6 and on Second Regard on March 1. After the conference in Montreal, the film will travel to France and Belgium, for a series of screenings in churches, universities and repertory cinemas across the old continent.

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