Paul à Québec

Paul à Québec (lit. "Paul in Quebec City") is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by François Bouvier and released in 2015.^[1]

Paul à Québec
Film poster
Directed by	François Bouvier
Written by	François Bouvier Michel Rabagliati
Based on	Paul à Québec by Michel Rabagliati
Produced by	Nathalie Brigitte Bustos Valérie d'Auteuil André Rouleau Karine Vanasse
Starring	François Létourneau Julie Le Breton Gilbert Sicotte Louise Portal
Cinematography	Steve Asselin
Edited by	Michel Arcand
Music by	Benoît Charest
Production company	Caramel Film
Distributed by	Remstar
Release date	September 18, 2015 (2015-09-18)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Based on Michel Rabagliati's graphic novel of the same title,^[2] the film stars François Létourneau and Julie Le Breton as Paul and Lucie, a happy couple struggling to cope with Lucie's father Roland's (Gilbert Sicotte) diagnosis with terminal pancreatic cancer.^[1] The cast also includes Louise Portal, Bobby Beshro, Brigitte Lafleur, Myriam LeBlanc, Julien Poulin, Mathieu Quesnel, Patrice Robitaille, Geneviève Schmidt, Nathaly Thibault, Jasmine Lemée and Karine Vanasse.

Rabagliati originally approached Bouvier about adapting either Paul à Québec or Paul a un travail d'été for film, because he was a fan of Bouvier's earlier film Winter Stories (Histoires d'hiver).^[3] Around the same time as that personal contact, Karine Vanasse and Nathalie Brigitte Bustos, two of the film's producers, approached La Pastèque, Rabagliati's publisher, to inquire about optioning film rights to Paul à Quebec.^[4]

Sicotte won the Québec Cinéma award for Best Actor at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards.^[5]