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Le Torrent (2012)
cast:
Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon, Laurence Leboeuf, Dominique Quesnel, Anthony Therrien, Marco Bacon, Roger Blay, Normand Canac-Marquis, Aubert Pallascio
director:
Simon Lavoie
running time:
152 min.
synopsis
Its 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. Hell enter the pries- thood 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 mothers death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu pedlar.
Its 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. Hell enter the pries- thood 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 mothers death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu pedlar.
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