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Elephant Song is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Charles Binamé released in france in DVD on 6 december 2016 with Bruce Greenwood
Elephant Song (2014)
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Add to a movie listElephant Song is a 2014 Canadian drama film directed by Charles Binamé and adapted from the same titled stage play by Nicolas Billon. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
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The film stars Bruce Greenwood as Toby Green, an independent psychiatrist who is gradually drawn into a psychological mind game by Michael (played by Xavier Dolan), whom he is interviewing about the disappearance of Green's colleague Dr. Lawrence (Colm Feore). Michael, a disturbed young man, the son of an opera singer and a distant father he has only seen once has an aura of charm about himself and displays signs of rationality and intelligence that draws the doctor deeper into the plot despite warnings by nurse Susan Peterson (Catherine Keener) to keep a distance from the patient.Actors
Bruce Greenwood
(Dr. Toby Green)
Xavier Dolan
(Michael Aleen)
Catherine Keener
(Nurse Susan Peterson)
Carrie-Anne Moss
(Olivia)
Colm Feore
(Dr. James Lawrence)
Cindy Sampson
(Christelle)
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