Pier-Luc Latulippe holds a Media Arts and Technology diploma from Cégep de Jonquière. He has since directed several short films (Edges and, most recently River). He works in advertising and television as a director and editor. In 2013, his film Edges was selected at the REGARD short film festival, as well as at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois and in Cannes' section Canada : Talent tout court. In 2015, he codirected the documentary Manor, with Martin Fournier. In the fall of 2021, the duo made a strong comeback with their second feature-length documentary, Dehors Serge Dehors, which premiered in the National Competition at the 24th edition of RIDM. Simon & Marianne is the duo’s third film.
Simon is living with an inoperable brain tumor that casts a shadow over his remaining days. The time for major decisions is approaching. Supported by his partner Marianne, Simon stands at the threshold of two worlds—fragile, lucid, fully present to everything around him. Filmed almost entirely at night and in black and white, the documentary captures their final summer together.
Since the 1990s, the old Gaulin Manor has housed erstwhile residents of the Saint-Hyacinthe psychiatric hospital. Some thirty inhabitants occupy this alternative lodging space, their salvation after the wave of deinstitutionalization that one day threw them into the streets with no resources. Profit rules, and so this motel at the world’s end will be destroyed to fill the pockets of promoters. ...
Simon is living with an inoperable brain tumor that casts a shadow over his remaining days. The time for major decisions is approaching. Supported by his partner Marianne, Simon stands at the threshold of two worlds—fragile, lucid, fully present to everything around him. Filmed almost entirely at night and in black and white, the documentary captures their final summer together.
Since the 1990s, the old Gaulin Manor has housed erstwhile residents of the Saint-Hyacinthe psychiatric hospital. Some thirty inhabitants occupy this alternative lodging space, their salvation after the wave of deinstitutionalization that one day threw them into the streets with no resources. Profit rules, and so this motel at the world’s end will be destroyed to fill the pockets of promoters. ...