THE TORRENT

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THE TORRENT

LE TORRENT

By Simon LAVOIE

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Drama - Completed 2012

A young man, born out of wedlock to his abusive mother Claudine, whose hopes he will become a priest are dashed when he refuses to enter the seminary.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 109 mn
- Director(s)
- Simon LAVOIE
- Writer(s)
- Simon LAVOIE, Anne HÉBERT
- Cast
- Victor Andres TURGEON-TRELLES, Laurence LEBOEUF, Dominique QUESNEL, Anthony THERRIEN, Marco BACON, Roger BLAY, Normand CANAC-MARQUIS
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-6857-0000-E-0000-0000-W
- Producer(s)
- Jacques BLAIN (Lusio Films), Sylvain CORBEIL (Lusio Films)
- Synopsis
- Rural Québec, early 20th century. Claudine, a young woman ostracized by her mother, lives on an isolated farm, where she has raised her son François alone, in a strict religious upbringing. She dreams of this "bastard" child one day becoming a priest, through which she might restore her own reputation. Now a young man, François returns home from college, and for the first time in his life rebels against his mother’s authority. In retaliation, she strikes him in the head so hard that he becomes deaf. From that point on, all he can hear is the roar of the river’s torrent, which flows not far from their home ... Months later, we rediscover the young man alone on the otherwise abandoned farm. François comes to desire a woman, and buys mysterious Amica from a peddler camped on his land. Little by little, he finds himself tamed by this very special girl.