The Night Logan Woke Up

The Night Logan Woke Up (French: La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé) is a Canadian thriller drama limited television series created, written and directed by Xavier Dolan.^[1] Adapted from the theatrical play La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé by Michel Marc Bouchard, the series centres on the Larouches, a family in Val-des-Chutes, Quebec, who are coping with the death of family matriarch Madeleine (Anne Dorval).

The Night Logan Woke Up
French	La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé
Created by	Xavier Dolan
Based on	La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé by Michel Marc Bouchard
Written by	Xavier Dolan
Directed by	Xavier Dolan
Starring	Julie Le Breton Anne Dorval Patrick Hivon Jasmine Lemée Pier-Gabriel Lajoie
Music by	Hans Zimmer David Fleming
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	French
No. of episodes	5
Production
Executive producers	Harry Grivakis Javi Hernandez
Producers	Xavier Dolan Nancy Grant Jasmyrh Lemoine
Production location	Canada
Cinematography	André Turpin
Editor	Xavier Dolan
Production companies	Productions Nanoby Canal+ Québecor Contenu
Original release
Network	Club Illico
Release	November 24, 2022 (2022-11-24)

The series alternates between the present day, when prodigal daughter Mimi/Mireille (Julie Le Breton), a prominent thanatologist, returns home for the first time in decades. She honours her mother's dying request that she embalm the body. The present is sometimes displaced by flashbacks to the early 1990s, when the young Mireille (Jasmine Lemée) and her brother Jules/Julien (Elijah Patrice-Baudelot) were close friends with Logan Goodyear/Laurier Gaudreault (Pier-Gabriel Lajoie) until the event that shattered the family.^[2]

The cast also includes Patrick Hivon as the adult Jules/Julien, Éric Bruneau as brother Denis, Dolan as youngest brother Elliot, and Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Julien's wife Chantal, as well as Julianne Côté, Guylaine Tremblay, Jacques Lavallée and Sylvie Drapeau in supporting roles. Much of the core cast played the Larouches in the original 2019 stage production of Bouchard's play.^[3]

The series premiered in Canada on November 24, 2022 on Club Illico,^[2] and January 23, 2023 on Canal+ in France.^[4] The first two episodes screened in the Indie Episodic program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.^[5] The series premiered in the US on Netflix later that year, on October 18, 2023.^[6]

The series won six Prix Gémeaux: Best Direction, Best Leading Role in a Drama Series, Best Supporting Role in a Drama Series, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Original Music.

Episodes

#	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"La nuit où Madeleine est morte"	Xavier Dolan	Xavier Dolan	November 24, 2022 (2022-11-24)
2	"La nuit où Mireille était reparue"	Xavier Dolan	Xavier Dolan	November 24, 2022 (2022-11-24)
3	"La nuit où Chantal avait compris"	Xavier Dolan	Xavier Dolan	November 24, 2022 (2022-11-24)
4	"La nuit où Julien avait pris peur"	Xavier Dolan	Xavier Dolan	November 24, 2022 (2022-11-24)
5	"La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé"	Xavier Dolan	Xavier Dolan	November 24, 2022 (2022-11-24)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award / Festival	Category	Recipient(s)	Result	Ref.
2023	Prix Gémeaux	Best Drama Series	Xavier Dolan, Nancy Grant	Nominated	[7]
		Best Direction - Drama Series	Xavier Dolan	Won	[8]
		Best Writing - Drama Series	Xavier Dolan	Nominated	[7]
		Best Cinematography - Drama	André Turpin	Won	[8]
		Best Editing - Fiction	Xavier Dolan and Stéphane Lafleur	Won	[8]
		Best Leading Role in a Drama Series	Patrick Hivon	Won	[8]
		Best Leading Role in a Drama Series	Julie LeBreton	Nominated	[7]
		Best Supporting Role in a Drama Series	Anne Dorval	Won	[8]
		Best Supporting Role in a Drama Series	Xavier Dolan	Nominated	[7]
		Best Original Music - Drama	David Fleming and Hans Zimmer	Won	[8]
		Best Make-Up/Hair	Christophe Giraud, Erik Gosselin, Colette Martel and Edwina Voda	Nominated	[7]
		Best Set Design	Carolyne de Bellefeuille, Elise de Blois and Pascale Deschênes	Nominated	[7]
	Film Festival Cologne	The Hollywood Reporter Award	Xavier Dolan	Won	[9]