Forgotten Flowers

Forgotten Flowers (French: Les fleurs oubliées) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by André Forcier and released in 2019.[1] The film stars Roy Dupuis as Albert Payette, an agronomist who has lived in seclusion making mead since becoming disillusioned with his former career, but whose life is turned upside down when the late Brother Marie-Victorin Kirouac (Yves Jacques) returns to earth to enlist his help in an environmental campaign to take down his former employer Transgenia over its line of toxic pesticides.[2]

Forgotten Flowers
Film poster
Les fleurs oubliées
Directed by	André Forcier
Produced by	Louis Laverdière Linda Pinet Jean-François Roesler
Written by	Jean Boileau André Forcier Renaud Pinet-Forcier Linda Pinet François Pinet-Forcier
Starring	Roy Dupuis Yves Jacques Juliette Gosselin Christine Beaulieu Mylène Mackay
Music by	André Forcier (as Robert Fusil) Jo Millette
Cinematography	Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky
Edited by	Elisabeth Olga Tremblay
Production company	Exogene Films Les Films du Paria
Distributed by	Filmoption
Release date	September 16, 2019 (2019-09-16) (Cinéfest)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

The film also stars Juliette Gosselin as Lili de Rosbil and Christine Beaulieu as Mathilde Gauvreau, a journalist and lawyer who also become involved in the campaign, and Mylène Mackay as Mathilde's ancestor Marcelle, a fellow botanist with whom Marie-Victorin had an emotional, but not physical, romantic relationship with prior to his death.[3] Other cast members include Émile Schneider, Donald Pilon, Dorothée Berryman and France Castel.

The film had its theatrical premiere on September 16, 2019 at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival,[4] before premiering commercially on October 25.[5]