À tout prendre (1964)

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99 min - Drama - 15 May 1964 (Canada)

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A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Claude Jutra	...	Claude
	Johanne Harelle	...	Joanne
	Victor Désy	...	Victor
	Tania Fédor	...	La mère de Claude
	Guy Hoffman	...	Le curé / Priest (as Guy Hoffmann)
	Monique Joly	...	Monique
	Monique Mercure	...	Barbara
	Patrick Straram	...	Patrick
	François Tassé	...	Un acteur

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Claude is a middle-class French-Canadian filmmaker in his thirties from a good family and with a number of accomplishments. Uncertain about his life and the choices he has made, his family, his career, and his relationships are always under scrutiny by the the group of narcissistic intellectual friends and acquaintances he mingles with. His life is further complicated when he meets Johanne, a black fashion model. He falls in love with her and they build a relationship together, but Claude continues to sleep with other women. When Johanne makes two discoveries simultaneously and tells Claude about them - that she is pregnant and that Claude is gay - Claude is unable to handle the responsibility and the implications and decides to escape from his problems in any way that he can... Written by pr1mal_1

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