Nocturnes (film) explained

Nocturnes
Director:François Aubry
Producer:Yves Leduc
Robert Forget
Starring:Martin Foster
Animator:François Aubry
Music:Denis Larochelle
Cinematography:Francois Aubry
Jacques Avoine
Jimmy Chin
Editing:Werner Nold
Studio:National Film Board of Canada
Runtime:9 minutes
Country:Canada

Nocturnes is a Canadian animated short film, directed by François Aubry and released in 1988.[1] Mixing live action with animation, the film imagines the creative process through a depiction of Martin Foster, at the time a violinist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as a composer who is accessing the ultimate cosmic source of all artistic inspiration as he creates a new work.[2]

Some sources have attributed British actor Hugh Grant with a role in the film as Frédéric Chopin; however, this may be an erroneous conflation with a different film, as Aubry's film features neither spoken dialogue nor any depiction of Chopin, and does not list Grant in its credits.

The film premiered at the 1988 Montreal World Film Festival.[1]

It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Ingrid Abramovitch, "National Film Board is out in force with 10 festival premieres". Montreal Gazette, August 31, 1988.
  2. Yves Rousseau, "Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue: Rouyn des yeux, Rouyn du coeur"
  3. [Jay Scott]