The Torrent

Story

Synopsis

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

Writers

Anne Hébert

Language

French

Country

Canada

Release date

26 October 2012

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon

  François

• 

  Laurence Leboeuf

  Amica / Claudine

• 

  Dominique Quesnel

  Dominique

• 

  Anthony Therrien

  François

• Marco Bacon

  Peddler

• Roger Blay

  Clochard

• 

  Normand Canac-Marquis

  Headmaster

• 

  Aubert Pallascio

  Vieil instituteur

• 

  Martin Desgagné

  Jeune instituteur

• Alain Gabriel

  Surveillant

• 

  David Noël

  Jeune homme du dortoir

• Mario Genest

  Maquignon