The Torrent (2012)
October 26, 2012Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
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
Alain Gabriel
Surveillant
Pierre Bédard
Homme violent
Manon Payeur
Femme protectrice
Ludovic Martineau
Nouveau-né
Milan Martineau
Nouveau-né
Jacques Blain
Producer
Sylvain Corbeil
Producer
Gin Bergeron
Femme hostile
Danièle Ledoux
Femme hostile
Nicolas Roy
Editor
Tommy Chouinard
Villageois
Fernand Mongeau
Villageois
Details.
Release DateOctober 26, 2012
Original NameLe Torrent
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 32m
Genres
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The Torrent (French: Le torrent) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Simon Lavoie and released in 2012. An adaptation of Anne Hébert's novella Le Torrent, the film centres on the life of François (played by Anthony Therrien as a child and Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon as an adult), a man who was raised by his devoutly religious and abusive mother Claudine (Dominique Quesnel). Left deaf when his refusal to obey her demand that he enter the seminary to become a Catholic priest led Claudine to hit him on the head, he has continued to live in rural isolation, and struggles to establish human connection when he purchases Amica (Laurence Leboeuf), a woman being sold into slavery who is eerily similar to his mother in her youth.The film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in October 2012.The film received six Prix Jutra nominations at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013, for Best Actor (Trelles Turgeon), Best Actress (Quesnel), Best Art Direction (Éric Barbeau), Best Cinematography (Mathieu Laverdière), Best Original Music (Normand Corbeil) and Best Sound (Luc Boudrias, Marcel Chouinard and Patrice Leblanc).