Looking for Eternity

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| name = Looking for Eternity

| native_name = {{infobox name module|fr|Portion d'éternité}}

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| director = Robert Favreau

| screenplay = Robert Favreau

| producer = Marie-Andrée Vinet

| starring = Marc Messier
Danielle Proulx
Paul Savoie

| music = Marie Bernard

| cinematography = Guy Dufaux

| editing = Hélène Girard

| studio = Les Productions du regard

| distributor = Prima Films

| released = {{film date|1989|8||FFM}}

| runtime = 106 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = French

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Looking for Eternity ({{langx|fr|Portion d'éternité}}) is a Canadian science fiction drama film, directed by Robert Favreau and released in 1989.Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}. p. 129. The film stars Paul Savoie as Antoine, a doctor running a fertility clinic; after Pierre (Marc Messier) and Marie (Danielle Proulx), an infertile couple who were clients of his clinic, are killed in a car accident, he is drawn into a legal battle with Pierre's father (Gilles Pelletier), who wants their embryos destroyed, while Antoine himself wants to use them to test his theory that a form of immortality can be achieved through cloning.Mary Alemany-Galway, "Robert Favreau's Portion d'éternité". Cinema Canada, November 1989.

The cast also includes Patricia Nolin as Hélène, a government agent investigating Antoine's clinic, as well as Maryse Gagné, Raymond Cloutier, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Daniel Gadouas, Hélène Mercier and Mark Hellman in supporting roles.

Production and distribution

The film was Favreau's narrative feature debut, after several documentary films.Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/portion-eternite-robert-favreau/ "Portion d’éternité – Film de Robert Favreau"]. Films du Québec, February 5, 2009. It premiered at the 1989 Montreal World Film Festival,"Star-studded lineup set for Montreal film festival". Edmonton Journal, August 3, 1989. where it won the award for Best Canadian Film and Proulx won the award for Best Actress."Drama about Soviet youth prisons wins top prize". Montreal Gazette, September 5, 1989.

Critical response

Pat Donnelly of the Montreal Gazette reviewed the film negatively, writing that "at its best, Portion d'éternité is a quasi-documentary that dares to go where no legislator wants to - into the ethical questions surrounding reproductive technology. At its worst, it's a sensationalistic science-fiction téléroman on the trendy subject of in-vitro fertilization."Pat Donnelly, "Baby-factory fantasy is a stillborn tale". Montreal Gazette, September 2, 1989.

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