Longing for Eternity

Longing for Eternity (1988)

Portion d'éternité

In this melodrama, Marie and Pierre (Danielle Proulx and Marc Messier) are a comfortably middle-class couple who want the ultimate accessory: a baby. Their efforts to conceive naturally have been unsuccessful, so they decide to try using the newest artificial methods of conception. Unfortunately for them, the clinician they contact for help is also given to conducting unauthorized experiments on the human lifespan, cloning, etc. Eventually the fertilization effort is successful, and Marie has conceived quadruplets. The couple discusses this situation while driving, and are killed in an auto accident.

Date of release
1988-05-26
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Science Fiction
Director
Robert Favreau

Casting

Interesting facts

Looking for Eternity is a Canadian science fiction drama film, directed by Robert Favreau and released in 1989. The film stars Paul Savoie as Antoine, a doctor running a fertility clinic; after Pierre and Marie, an infertile couple who were clients of his clinic, are killed in a car accident, he is drawn into a legal battle with Pierre's father, who wants their embryos destroyed, while Antoine himself wants to use them to test his theory that a form of immortality can be achieved through cloning.

Production and distribution

The film was Favreau's narrative feature debut, after several documentary films. It premiered at the 1989 Montreal World Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian Film and Proulx won the award for Best Actress.

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