Equinox (French: Équinoxe) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Arthur Lamothe and released in 1986.
[1] Lamothe's first narrative feature film in 18 years after having concentrated exclusively on documentary films since 1968's Dust from Underground (Poussière sur la ville), the film stars Jacques Godin as Guillaume, a man returning to his hometown for the first time since being wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit, in order to confront the former friend whose false testimony resulted in Guillaume being sent to prison.
[4] In his 2003 book A Century of Canadian Cinema, Gerald Pratley called the film a triumph of cinematography over script.
[5] For the Montreal Gazette, Bruce Bailey dismissed the film as "something of a cross between a Beachcombers episode and something from Walt Disney's Adventureland", concluding that it "has more depth than something made for TV.
I find the image of a leonine Godin, paddling a canoe through marshes to come to a rendez-vous with his past, unforgettable.