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Title: À corps perdu (1988)
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Johanne-Marie Tremblay | ... |
Sarah
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Michel Voïta | ... |
David
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Quentin
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Kim Yaroshevskaya | ... |
Noemie
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Mere
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France Castel | ... |
Michele
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Le patron
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Victor Désy | ... |
Dr. Ferron
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Mimi D'Estée | ... |
Dame agee
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Louise Marleau |
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Marilyn Gardner |
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Albert Millaire |
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Jean Gascon |
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Language:
FrenchRelease Date:
30 September 1988 (Canada) See more »Also Known As:
Straight to the Heart See more »Company Credits
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Music by Antonio Vivaldi
Performed by James Bowman with The Academy of Ancient Music
Conducted by Christopher Hogwood
Courtesy of Decca Record Company Ltd
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"Stabat Mater"Music by Antonio Vivaldi
Performed by James Bowman with The Academy of Ancient Music
Conducted by Christopher Hogwood
Courtesy of Decca Record Company Ltd
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An attractive, happy ménage-a-trois in Montreal abruptly splits up, leaving burned-out photojournalist Matthias Habich the odd lover out, adding a burden of personal disillusionment to his already overwhelming load of professional guilt. Quebec filmmaker Léa Pool certainly shows a flair for dramatic gestures, and her film is often more fragmented than its protagonist, sometimes to stunning effect. Mirrors are shattered, children in Third-World villages are shot, heartbeats pound on the soundtrack (there's an unfortunate tendency to overwork the bombastic synthesizer score), and the stark black and white photographs supposedly taken by Habich while on assignment (and meant to illustrate his inner anguish) almost overpower the simple human drama in the foreground. But once the story zeroes in on Habich's moral crisis (and his bittersweet affair with a deaf-mute window washer) it coheres into an absorbing study of a man disengaged from the world around him, with all the jarring flashbacks and portentous visual tricks balanced against moments of surprising tenderness and sensitivity. Only the generic title is a liability.