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Kamouraska is a 1973 French-Canadian film directed and written by Claude Jutra, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Anne Hébert. At the time of its release it was the most expensive film ever made in Canadian history. It won four Canadian Film Awards, but was unsuccessful at the box office.
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.
- Claude Jutra
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- Geneviève Bujold
The film Kamouraska is based on fact and on Anne HÉBERT's novel of the same name. Hébert participated in the writing of the screenplay. The film tells the story of Élizabeth Aulnières, who, with the help of her lover, Dr. George Nelson, and his servant, plots the murder of Élizabeth's husband, Antoine Tassy, seigneur of Kamouraska.
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...
Kamouraska. (Power of Passion) Year: 1973. Language: French. Format: 35mm Colour. Runtime: 124 min. Director: Claude Jutra. Producer: Mag Bodard, Pierre Lamy. Writer: Anne Hébert, Claude Jutra. Cinematographer: Michel Brault. Editor: Renée Lichtig. Music: Maurice LeRoux.
A woman’s dramatic life in mid-1800s Quebec is told through flashbacks at her second husband’s deathbed. Starring Geneviève Bujold and based on Anne Hébert’s novel. Director. Claude Jutra. A prolific filmmaker, Jutra directed more than 30 productions, including Kamouraska, Surfacing (based on Margaret Atwood’s novel by the same name) and By Design.
Kamouraska. Quebec, middle of the 19th century. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her dying second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, and her tumultuous marriage to her first husband, Antoine, who was the Lord of Kamouraska.
