The Castle (French: Le Château) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Denys Desjardins and released in 2020.
[1] It profiles his mother Madeleine Ducharme, as she and her family confront the prospect of her having to move out of her independent living seniors' residence and into a managed CHSLD long-term care facility due to her advancing Alzheimer's disease.
[2] The film premiered in March 2020 at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma,[3] before its commercial distribution on Vidéotron's Illico platform in May.
[3] In 2022 Desjardins released I Lost My Mom (J'ai placé ma mère), a sequel film which centred more on her final months in long-term care and her death.
[5] The film received two Prix Iris nominations at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021, for Best Editing in a Documentary (Desjardins, Annie Jean) and Best Sound in a Documentary (Stéphane Barsalou, Claude Beaugrand, Julie Innes).