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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Victor Andres Trelles TurgeonFrançois
Laurence LeboeufAmica / Claudine
Dominique QuesnelDominique
Anthony TherrienFrançois
Normand Canac-MarquisHeadmaster
Aubert PallascioVieil instituteur
Martin DesgagnéJeune instituteur
David NoëlJeune homme du dortoirExplore the crew
- Writer
- Anne Hébert
- Original Music Composer
- Normand Corbeil
- Director
- Simon Lavoie
- Director of Photography
- Mathieu Laverdière