The True Nature of Bernadette

The story

Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.

Cast & crew

Micheline LanctôtBernadette

Donald PilonThomas

Reynald BouchardRock

Robert RivardFelicien, le maire

Willie LamotheAntoine, le postier

Maurice BeaupréOctave

Ernest GuimondMoise

Julien LippéAuguste

Claudette Delorimier

Claudette DelorimierMadeleine

Pierre Valcour

Pierre ValcourCourchesne

Yvon Barrette

Yvon BarretteSt-Luc

Yves AllaireSt-Marc