Love and Human Remains

Love and Human Remains
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Denys Arcand
Produced by	Pierre Latour
Written by	Brad Fraser
Starring	Thomas Gibson Ruth Marshall Cameron Bancroft Mia Kirshner Joanne Vannicola Matthew Ferguson Aidan Devine
Music by	John McCarthy
Cinematography	Paul Sarossy
Edited by	Alain Baril
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release dates	July 22, 1994 (UK) March 2, 1995 (Germany) June 23, 1995 (U.S.) December 22, 1999 (France)
Running time	100 min.
Country	Canada
Language	English

Love and Human Remains is a 1993 Canadian film directed by Denys Arcand and based on Brad Fraser's stage play Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love. Fraser also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation. The film version follows the storyline of the original play fairly closely: a gay man and his heterosexual, female roommate try to find love and sexual gratification in Edmonton, as a serial killer is loose in the city.

While the film was shot on location in Montreal, Quebec, the original stage play and the screenplay are both set in Edmonton, Alberta. There are attempts made in the dialogue, props and background film footage to identify the city as Edmonton, as in David's remark, "Let's order a Rosebowl pizza and discuss your sexual crises" (Rose Bowl Pizza is a well-known restaurant and bar in Edmonton). In another scene, the TV news reporter signs off from "CFR-" and gets cut off by the TV remote control before she can say "-N," the final call letter of Edmonton's CTV affiliate station. Sal's remark, "It's chicken night at Flash," is an allusion to Flashbacks, a long-gone Edmonton gay bar. There's also repeated use of a Sun newspaper (the Edmonton Sun is one of the city's major daily newspapers, although the city's name is not included in the masthead of the prop paper) and CBC-TV Canadian Football League footage of an Edmonton Eskimos game.

Fraser won a Genie Award for his adapted screenplay, while stars Mia Kirshner, Joanne Vannicola, and Matthew Ferguson received acting nominations.

It has not been released as a Region 1 DVD, although it is available in the UK on a Region 0 ("region-free") PAL DVD issued by Arrow Films.

Cast

Thomas Gibson as David
Ruth Marshall as Candy
Cameron Bancroft as Bernie
Mia Kirshner as Benita
Joanne Vannicola as Jerri
Matthew Ferguson as Kane
Aidan Devine as Sal

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Films directed by Denys Arcand

A l'est d'Eaton (short, co-directed with Stéphane Venne, 1959)
Seul ou avec d'autres (co-directed with Denis Héroux and Stéphane Venne, 1962)
Cotton Mill, Treadmill (1970)
Dirty Money (1972)
Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
Gina (1975)
Comfort and Indifference (1982)
Empire, Inc. (TV mini-series episodes 2,5,6, 1983)
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe (1984)
The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Jesus of Montreal (1989)
Les lettres de la religieuse portugaise (TV, 1991)
Vue d'ailleurs (1992)
Love and Human Remains (1993)
Poverty and Other Delights (1996)
Stardom (2000)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Days of Darkness (2007)
An Eye for Beauty (2014)

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