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The Torrent (French: Le torrent) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Simon Lavoie and released in 2012. [1] An adaptation of Anne Hébert's novella Le Torrent, [2] 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). [3]
The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998. Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
A Real Job received an average rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars on the French website AlloCiné, based on 35 reviews. [6]Frédéric Strauss of Télérama wrote that the film "builds a fictional mosaic that has a lot to say, seriously and also amusingly, about the life of teachers".
Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law (Spanish: Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley) [1] [n. 1] is a 1998 Spanish dark comedy film written and directed by Santiago Segura, who stars as José Luis Torrente, a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and fascist former police agent. [2]
Widowed at the age of twenty, Madame Boissière is a real mother hen who broods to excess over her two sons Robert and Claude. She ruined the marriage of one and keeps the other away from any female presence.
The Wise Guys (U.S. video title: Jailbirds' Vacation) (French: Les Grandes Gueules) is a 1965 French drama film directed by Robert Enrico, based on a novel by José Giovanni. Featuring two popular male leads in Bourvil and Lino Ventura , it tells the story of a man struggling to get his ancient family sawmill back into production, despite ...
The film is set on a farm in the Limousin region of central France during, and just after, the First World War.With her two sons Georges and Constant, and son-in-law, Clovis, serving in the army, Hortense Sandrail employs Francine Riant, a young woman brought up in an orphanage to help on the farm.
The film's original soundtrack: [4] Glad I Waited - Polly Gibbons / Donald Black & Alexander Rudd; Who Knows - Marion Black; Peer Gynt - Edvard Grieg; Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Doris Day / Osvaldo Farres; The Mole Man - Schwab; VB Drop - Ronald Fritz & JOAT; Digital Sunset Funk - Gary Royant; Uptown Girl - David Lynch; Bump Bump - Charles ...