Looking for Eternity (French: Portion d'éternité) is a Canadian science fiction drama film, directed by Robert Favreau and released in 1989.
[1] The film stars Paul Savoie as Antoine, a doctor running a fertility clinic; after Pierre (Marc Messier) and Marie (Danielle Proulx), an infertile couple who were clients of his clinic, are killed in a car accident, he is drawn into a legal battle with Pierre's father (Gilles Pelletier), who wants their embryos destroyed, while Antoine himself wants to use them to test his theory that a form of immortality can be achieved through cloning.
[2] The cast also includes Patricia Nolin as Hélène, a government agent investigating Antoine's clinic, as well as Maryse Gagné, Raymond Cloutier, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Daniel Gadouas, Hélène Mercier and Mark Hellman in supporting roles.
[5] Pat Donnelly of the Montreal Gazette reviewed the film negatively, writing that "at its best, Portion d'eternite is a quasi-documentary that dares to go where no legislator wants to - into the ethical questions surrounding reproductive technology.
At its worst, it's a sensationalistic science-fiction téléroman on the trendy subject of in-vitro fertilization.