Press reviews

(Carlo Guillermo) Proto gets intimate access to his subjects and paints a picture of a family desperately trying to cling to a sense of normalcy and togetherness in the wake of a tragedy. Toronto Film Scene The movie gets sometimes unbearably close to the Hartings, passionate, compelling characters who make eerily beautiful music. It's also one of the saddest films I've seen in a long time. NOW Magazine Resurrecting Hassan merges the disparate worlds of Denis, Peggy and Lauviah, from their profound grief to their New Age pursuit of miracles, their stunning musicality and incredible perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity. Montreal Gazette

Film details

Synopsis
Resurrecting Hassan traces the lives of the Hartings, a blind Montreal family of three who make their living singing in the city’s subway stations. The Hartings lost their only sighted child Hassan in a tragic drowning accident, and have since turned to the teachings of Russian mystic Grigori Grabovoi, hoping to resurrect their son.

 

Credits
Screenplay and direction : Carlo Guillermo Proto
Image : Carlo Guillermo Proto

Sound conception: Carlo Guillermo Proto, Cory Rizos et Pablo Villegas
Editing : Carlo Guillermo Proto et Lorenzo Salazar
Music : Olivier Alary
Production : Carlo Guillermo Proto (The Handshake Productions)

 

Financial partners

SODEC

Conseils des Arts et des lettres du Québec

Conseils des Arts du Canada

TeleFilm Canada

 

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