Ocean (2002)
Océan
An elegy for traveling by rail follows the titular train from Montreal to Halifax.
A Road-Movie on rails, Ocean offers both a journey between Montreal and Halifax, as well as a sensory evocation of the intimate experience of travelling.
- Date of release
- 2002-09-12
- TMDB
- 4.5 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Catherine Martin
Interesting facts
Ocean is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Catherine Martin and released in 2002. 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.
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