The Woman Who Drinks (2001)

6.7/10

Cast

Élise Guilbault, Luc Picard, Michel Forget, Fanny Mallette, Laurent Lacoursière

Overview

On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything she had: "Loneliness and aging are themes that impose themselves on me, in one form or another. As for alcoholism, it fascinates me because of the revolt it underpins, and revolts me because of the unhappiness it creates around itself.