Kamouraska

– A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.60 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 4 Minutes
Release Year:
1973
Kamouraska (1973)

A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.

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Release Date:

29 Mar 1973

Language:

French, English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Claude Jutra

Writer:

Anne Hébert (novel), Anne Hébert (screenplay), Claude Jutra

Main Actors:

Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Marcel Cuvelier, Philippe Léotard

Plot:

Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in his mental illness and cruelties, her falling in love with an American physician, Georges Nelson, and the aftermath of Antoine's violent death.

Awards:

4 wins.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.6/10