The Night Logan Woke Up () is a Canadian thriller drama limited television series created, written and directed by Xavier Dolan.T'Cha Dunlevy, "Xavier Dolan reawakens fans' interest with first series" . Montreal Gazette, December 2, 2022. Adapted from the theatrical play La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé by Michel Marc Bouchard, the series centres on the Larouches, a family in Val-des-Chutes, Quebec, who are coping with the death of family matriarch Madeleine (Anne Dorval).
The series alternates between the present day, when prodigal daughter Mimi/Mireille (Julie Le Breton), a prominent thanatologist, returns home for the first time in decades. She honours her mother's dying request that she embalm the body. The present is sometimes displaced by flashbacks to the early 1990s, when the young Mireille (Jasmine Lemée) and her brother Jules/Julien (Elijah Patrice-Baudelot) were close friends with Logan Goodyear/Laurier Gaudreault (Pier-Gabriel Lajoie) until the event that shattered the family.Manon Dumais, "«La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s’est réveillé»: secrets, mensonges et trahisons" . Le Devoir, November 24, 2022.
The cast also includes Patrick Hivon as the adult Jules/Julien, Éric Bruneau as brother Denis, Dolan as youngest brother Elliot, and Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Julien's wife Chantal, as well as Julianne Côté, Guylaine Tremblay, Jacques Lavallée and Sylvie Drapeau in supporting roles. Much of the core cast played the Larouches in the original 2019 stage production of Bouchard's play.Guillaume Picard, "Patrick Hivon crève l’écran dans la série de Xavier Dolan, «La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s’est réveillé»" . Le Journal de Montréal, November 28, 2022.
The series premiered in Canada on November 24, 2022, on Club Illico, and January 23, 2023, on Canal+ in France.Guillaume Picard, "«La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s’est réveillé»: un thriller psychologique haletant" . TVA Nouvelles, November 23, 2022. The first two episodes screened in the Indie Episodic program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.Noel Ransome, "Xavier Dolan’s TV project ‘The Night Logan Woke Up’ heading to Sundance" . Toronto Star, December 13, 2022. The series premiered in the US on Netflix later that year, on October 18, 2023.
The series won six Prix Gémeaux: Best Direction, Best Leading Role in a Drama Series, Best Supporting Role in a Drama Series, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Original Music.
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Awards and nominations YearAward / FestivalCategoryRecipient(s)Result2023Prix Gémeaux Best Drama Series Xavier Dolan, Nancy Grant Best Direction - Drama Series Xavier Dolan Best Writing - Drama Series Xavier Dolan Best Cinematography - Drama André Turpin Best Editing - Fiction Xavier Dolan and Stéphane Lafleur Best Leading Role in a Drama Series Patrick Hivon Best Leading Role in a Drama Series Julie LeBreton Best Supporting Role in a Drama Series Anne Dorval Best Supporting Role in a Drama Series Xavier Dolan Best Original Music - Drama David Fleming and Hans Zimmer Best Make-Up/Hair Christophe Giraud, Erik Gosselin, Colette Martel and Edwina Voda Best Set Design Carolyne de Bellefeuille, Elise de Blois and Pascale Deschênes Film Festival Cologne The Hollywood Reporter Award Xavier Dolan
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