Nocturnes is a Canadian animated short film, directed by François Aubry and released in 1988.[1] Mixing live action with animation, the film imagines the creative process through a depiction of Martin Foster, at the time a violinist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, as a composer who is accessing the ultimate cosmic source of all artistic inspiration as he creates a new work.[2]

Nocturnes
Directed byFrançois Aubry
Written byFrançois Aubry
Produced byYves Leduc
Robert Forget
StarringMartin Foster
CinematographyFrancois Aubry
Jacques Avoine
Jimmy Chin
Edited byWerner Nold
Music byDenis Larochelle
Animation byFrançois Aubry
Production
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Release date
  • 1988 (1988) (FFM)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryCanada

Some sources have attributed British actor Hugh Grant with a role in the film as Frédéric Chopin; however, this may be an erroneous conflation with a different film, as Aubry's film features neither spoken dialogue nor any depiction of Chopin, and does not list Grant in its credits.

The film premiered at the 1988 Montreal World Film Festival.[1]

It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989.[3]

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  1. ^ a b Ingrid Abramovitch, "National Film Board is out in force with 10 festival premieres". Montreal Gazette, August 31, 1988.
  2. ^ Yves Rousseau, "Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue: Rouyn des yeux, Rouyn du coeur"]. Ciné-Bulles, Vol. 8, No, 3, April–May 1989. pp. 38-40.
  3. ^ Jay Scott, "Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations: Dead Ringers tops Genie list". The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1989.
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