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Mont Foster (film)

2019 film directed by Louis Godbout

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ106879949 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mont Foster is a Canadian drama film, directed by Louis Godbout and released in 2019. Freely adapted from the poem Erlkönig by Goethe, the film stars Patrick Hivon and Laurence Leboeuf as Mathieu and Chloé, a couple spending time at an isolated cabin in the country, where Chloé slips into insanity after seeing and hearing strange visions.

The cast also includes Lucie Laurier, Émile Proulx-Cloutier and Laurent Lucas.

The film premiered in October 2019 at the São Paulo International Film Festival, before having its Canadian premiere in March 2020 at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.

The film received a Prix Iris nomination at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for Best Actor (Hivon).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mont Foster (film)” as 2019 film directed by Louis Godbout. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mont, Foster and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2019 film directed by Louis Godbout. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106879949. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019, 2020 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mont Foster (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.