Deliver Me (film)
Deliver Me is a Canadian drama film, directed by Denis Chouinard and released in 2006. The film stars Céline Bonnier as Annie, a woman who has just been released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence for killing her former partner, and is attempting to make amends and reconcile with her daughter Sophie over the objections of Irène, Sophie's paternal grandmother who has been raising the girl since her son's death.
The cast also includes Patrice Robitaille, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Gregory Hlady and Sandrine Bisson.
In preparation for the film, Chouinard and Bonnier met with a woman who had been incarcerated at the Joliette Institution for Women for murdering her husband. Chouinard cowrote the screenplay with novelist Monique Proulx.
Bonnier won the Prix Jutra for Best Actress at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007. Bonnier also won the award for Best Actress, and Chouinard and Proulx won for Best Screenplay, at the 2007 Brussels Independent Film Festival.
