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Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?Read moreLess
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
The story
Catherine, a concert pianist, is surprised one night by the arrival of her best friend from childhood, Marie-Alexandrine (Max), whom she hasn't seen for 25 years. Catherine and Max were Québec's most promising young pianists in the mid-1960's when the adventurous Max gets pregnant. She wants to keep the child, but her mother forces her to give him up for adoption; afterwards, Max leaves Québec and music. Now, years later, she returns, obsessed with finding her son. She locates the adoption records, and social services contacts her son to ask if he wants to see her. He refuses, but she keeps trying. Is a relationship with him possible? And what about her musical talent?
Cast & crew
Geneviève BujoldMarie-Alexandrine Brabant
Marthe KellerCatherine Mercier
Marie GuillardCatherine (adolescente)
Michel RivardDenis Lajeunesse
Rita LafontaineMadame Brabant
Véronique Le FlaguaisMme Michaud
Jean-Louis RouxPère Berube
Patrice BissonnetteMichel Simard
Rosa ZacharieFrançoise Simard
Jean-René OuelletJacques
François DompierreChef d'orchestre concert CatherineExplore the crew
- Director
- Michel Brault
- Writer
- Jefferson Lewis
- Writer
- Guy Fournier
- Director of Photography
- Sylvain Brault
- Original Music Composer
- François Dompierre
- Producer
- Alain Rocca
- Producer
- Yves Rivard
- Editor
- Jacques Gagné
- Producer
- Aimée Danis