Exile is a Canadian drama film, directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud and released in 2012. The film stars Francis Cleophat as Samuel, a teenager in Haiti who is left alone after his father is kidnapped by government forces; learning that his mother whom he had long been told was dead is in fact still alive and merely ran off to the United States, he embarks on a quest to find her, and is helped by various "guardian angels" as he travels to Miami, New York City and Montreal in his search. The film's cast also includes Paul Doucet, Julie Le Breton, Stephen McHattie, Maxime Dumontier and Ralph Prosper, and includes narration by writer and broadcaster Stanley Péan. Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette reviewed the film favourably, writing that although the film's plot posed possible suspension of disbelief problems in the way Samuel is continually protected in his journey, the film was clearly meant to be seen as an allegory for Samuel's passage into manhood. The film premiered at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival in 2012, before opening commercially in June 2014.

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Notable quotes

“You can't make up for two thousand years of exile in a few years.”
— Chaim Weizmann. Quoted by Project Herzl.
“EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
“You are engaged with an elsewhere that cannot be reached: Isn't that the defining characteristic of exile?”
— Breyten Breytenbach, "The Exile as African", in Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile, ed. Marc Robinson (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994), p. 181.
“When you are exiled from a space, you are exiled from a time.”
— William H. Gass, "Exile", in Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile, ed. Marc Robinson (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994), p. 219.
“… political exile is not exile from influence.”
— Massimo Introvigne, "Kang Youwei: A Confucian Monarchist in the New World", Bitter Winter (March 2, 2026)
“No, my good lord: banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack and banish all the world.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act II, scene 4, line 520.

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Overview

Exile is a Canadian drama film, directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud and released in 2012. The film stars Francis Cleophat as Samuel, a teenager in Haiti who is left alone after his father is kidnapped by government forces; learning that his mother whom he had long been told was dead is in fact still alive and merely ran off to the United States, he embarks on a quest to find her, and is helped by various "guardian angels" as he travels to Miami, New York City and Montreal in his search. The film's cast also includes Paul Doucet, Julie Le Breton, Stephen McHattie, Maxime Dumontier and Ralph Prosper, and includes narration by writer and broadcaster Stanley Péan. Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette reviewed the film favourably, writing that although the film's plot posed possible suspension of disbelief problems in the way Samuel is continually protected in his journey, the film was clearly meant to be seen as an allegory for Samuel's passage into manhood. The film premiered at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival in 2012, before opening commercially in June 2014.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Exile is a Canadian drama film, directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud and released in 2012. The film stars Francis Cleophat as Samuel, a teenager in Haiti who is left alone after his father is kidnapped by government forces; learning that his mother whom he had long been told was dead is in fact still alive and merely ran off to the United States, he embarks on a quest to find her, and is helped by various "guardian angels" as he travels to Miami, New York City and Montreal in his search.

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Notable quotes

“You can't make up for two thousand years of exile in a few years.”
— Chaim Weizmann. Quoted by Project Herzl.
“EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
“You are engaged with an elsewhere that cannot be reached: Isn't that the defining characteristic of exile?”
— Breyten Breytenbach, "The Exile as African", in Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile, ed. Marc Robinson (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994), p. 181.
“When you are exiled from a space, you are exiled from a time.”
— William H. Gass, "Exile", in Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile, ed. Marc Robinson (Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994), p. 219.
“… political exile is not exile from influence.”
— Massimo Introvigne, "Kang Youwei: A Confucian Monarchist in the New World", Bitter Winter (March 2, 2026)
“No, my good lord: banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins; but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack and banish all the world.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act II, scene 4, line 520.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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