Emile (film)

Emile is a Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai but not released widely until 2004. The cast included Ian McKellen and Deborah Kara Unger. The film receivedGenie Award nominations for Best Achievement in Overall Sound and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Ian McKellen in 2005.

As a young man, Emile went to England on a university scholarship, leaving behind his brutal older brother Carl and his creative younger brother Freddy to run the family farm in Saskatchewan. Despite promising Freddy that he would return, Emile stayed in England and became an academic, turning his back on his Canadian past and even acquiring an English accent, while his brothers died one after the other in tragic circumstances Freddy gassing himself with exhaust fumes in his pickup Carl dying in a crash in the same pickup.On his brief return presumably for Carls funeral the authorities think he is there to adopt Carls young daughter Nadia, but he abandons her simply saying single parent families are not allowed on campus. All he is there to do is to resolve the family landholdings. ........

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