Ocean (film) explained

Ocean
Native Name:Océan
Director:Catherine Martin
Producer:Claude Cartier
Music:Robert Marcel Lepage
Cinematography:Carlos Ferrand
Editing:Natalie Lamoureaux
Studio:Les Productions Virage
Runtime:50 minutes
Country:Canada
Language:French

Ocean (French: Océan) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Catherine Martin and released in 2002.[1] Centred on the Océan passenger train from Montreal to Halifax, the film mixes footage from a trip on the train with interviews on the cultural and historical significance of train travel, touching particularly on themes of memory and nostalgia for past times when long-distance travel by rail was much more common than it is in the 21st century.[2]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2002.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.panorama-cinema.com/V2/article.php?categorie=5&id=55 "Trois temps pour Catherine Martin"
  2. Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk, The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. .
  3. http://www.filmstudies.ca/ARCH_canadatop2002.htm "Canada's Top Ten 2002"