The read
It runs long at 2h 32m.
Synopsis
It’s 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. He’ll enter the priesthood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. But 17-year-old François is dead set against joining the seminary. Enraged, Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf. After his mother’s death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu peddler.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Anne HébertWriter
- Normand CorbeilOriginal Music Composer
- Simon LavoieDirector
Cast
- Victor Andres Trelles TurgeonFrançois
- Laurence LeboeufAmica / Claudine
- Dominique QuesnelDominique
- Anthony TherrienFrançois
- Marco BaconPeddler
- Roger BlayClochard
- Normand Canac-MarquisHeadmaster
- Aubert PallascioVieil instituteur
- Martin DesgagnéJeune instituteur
- Alain GabrielSurveillant
- David NoëlJeune homme du dortoir
- Mario GenestMaquignon