''The Diary of an Old Man'' (french: Le Journal d’un vieil homme) is a 2015 drama film directed by

Bernard Émond Bernard Émond (born 1951) is a Canadian director, screenwriter, novelist and essayist working in the French-language. He studied anthropology at university and lived for several years in the Canadian north where he worked for the Inuit Broadcast ...

. It is based on the Anton Chekhov short story "A Dreary Story" (alternatively titled in English "A Boring Story" or "A Dull Story"). The film was shot at the

Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine The Faculty of Medicine (french: Faculté de médecine) is one of four medical schools in Quebec. The faculty is part of the Université de Montréal and is located in Montreal and Trois-Rivières. Recent accolades for the school include an endo ...

and elsewhere in

Greater Montreal Greater Montreal (french: Grand Montréal) is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto. In 2015, Statistics Canada identified Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as with ...

over 27 days in February, April, and May 2014. The film premiered at the inaugural Berlin Critics' Week (a series of screenings, organized by the German Film Critics Association, running parallel to the Berlin Film Festival). The film received one Jutra nomination, for lead actor

Paul Savoie Paul Savoie (born May 21, 1946) is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2015 film '' The Diary of an Old Man (Le Journal d’un vieil homme)'', for which he was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Actor at the 18th Queb ...

. Savoie won the award for Best Performance in a

Borsos Competition The Borsos Competition is the main awards program for Canadian feature films screening at the annual Whistler Film Festival. Introduced for the first time in 2004, the juried competition presents six awards annually to honour films, actors, screenpl ...

Film at the

Whistler Film Festival The Whistler Film Festival (WFF) is an annual film festival held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 2001, the festival is held the first weekend of December and includes juried competitive sections, the Borsos Awards, and the Pand ...

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* 2015 films Films directed by Bernard Émond Canadian drama films French-language Canadian films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub

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