The Moon and the Violin

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The 2002 Gold Award-winning director at the Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival brings us a charming and wacky portrait of senior citizens—all musicians, painters, writers, and actors—who live at the Chez-Nous des Artistes senior citizen's residence in Montreal. They may no longer have careers, and the world of the hip and successful may have forgotten them, but they continue to dream, work, flirt, and hold eccentric opinions. In between concerts, passionate scrabble tournaments, card games played with a large-print deck, and a heartbreaking aria sung under a full moon by an opera diva who never really made it, they present their tender, witty, and wise insights about life. Filmmaker Carole Laganière is exceptionally skilled at relating to her subjects; she asks tough questions about success, failure, or approaching death, but respect and pleasure infuse this film with a depth reminiscent of the ballads of Edith Piaf and a touch of the whimsy of Fellini's "Juliet of the Sprits."