The Handyman

Story

Synopsis

One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles into Montreal after his wife has left him and before long, he continues the momentum when an ill-considered liaison with a nubile woman ends on her insistence. Next, Armand gives his heart to a frustrated housewife, though this decision is hardly well thought out. In the meantime, a gay man who rents out a room in his apartment has unfulfilled longings directed at the unsuspecting handyman. L'Homme a Tout Faire won a Silver Medal for "Best Picture" at the 1980 San Sebastian Film Festival.

Director

Micheline Lanctôt

Writers

Micheline Lanctôt

Language

French

Country

Canada

Release date

19 March 1980

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Jocelyn Bérubé

  Armand Dorion

• 

  Andrée Pelletier

  Thérèse St-Amant

• 

  Paul Dion

  Coquel'oeil

• 

  Janette Bertrand

  Mme Lamarche, mère de Thérèse

• 

  Gilles Renaud

  Armand St-Amant

• Danielle Schneider

  Manon Lachapelle

• 

  Marcel Sabourin

  Georges Poitras, chauffeur