Director : Paolo Barzman
Screenplay : Jefferson Lewis (based on the novel of the same name by Matt Cohen)
Producers : Suzanne Girard (Productions BBR), Anna Stratton and Robin Cass (Triptych Media)
Budget : $6.8m
Locations: Estrie, Quebec, Montreal
Language : English
Cast : Roy Dupuis, Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Max von Sydow

Official website: Emotional Arithmetic

Distributor: Seville Pictures
DVD Distributor: Image Entertainment (US Title Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning)

Theatrical release in Quebec : 18 April 2008

Synopsis

The film probes the intricate possibilities of love and madness and the shadows the past throws upon the present. Three people who formed a life-long bond in a concentration camp are re-united for the first time forty years later in the bucolic setting of a renovated farm.

Sarandon plays Melanie Lansing Winters, a beautiful woman in her 50's who balances her precarious emotional state with an innate sharp, deprecating wit. Byrne plays Christopher Lewis, a British novelist haunted by the survivor's eternal question - "Why was I saved?" Von Sydow plays Jakob Bronski, a heroic dissident and veteran of a Soviet psychiatric hospital; who loses and saves his family twice and David Winters, (Plummer) Melanie's husband, whose compulsive infidelity has left him with a marriage in tatters and an embittered son, Benjamin (Dupuis). (Production Weekly)

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