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The Torrent 2012

★ 5.310 votes152 min📅 2012-10-26

Overview

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.

Director: Simon Lavoie

Cast

Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon
Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon
François
Laurence Leboeuf
Laurence Leboeuf
Amica / Claudine
Dominique Quesnel
Dominique Quesnel
Dominique
Anthony Therrien
Anthony Therrien
François
Marco Bacon
Peddler
Roger Blay
Clochard
Normand Canac-Marquis
Normand Canac-Marquis
Headmaster
Aubert Pallascio
Aubert Pallascio
Vieil instituteur
Martin Desgagné
Martin Desgagné
Jeune instituteur
Alain Gabriel
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