Une vie qui commence

A Life Begins
Directed by	Michel Monty
Produced by	Pierre Even Josée Vallée
Written by	Michel Monty
Starring	Julie LeBreton Raymond Cloutier Rita Lafontaine François Papineau Charles-Antoine Perreault
Production company	Cirrus Communications Item 7
Distributed by	Alliance Vivafilm
Release date	November 21, 2010 (2010-11-21) (Paris Semaine du Québec) January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21) (Canada)
Country	Canada
Language	French

A Life Begins (French: Une vie qui commence) is a 2010 Canadian French language drama film set in the sixties directed and written by Michel Monty, his debut long feature.

Following the death of his doctor father (François Papineau) from an overdose of prescription drugs, 12-year-old Étienne Charles-Antoine Perreault starts down the same path in an obsessive attempt to both replace and honor his memory.