• last year
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which | dG1fdDFZaTZ0SE12UGM
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00:00 Did you ever meet Mon Oncle Antoine? Or Benoit, his nephew?
00:07 Mon Oncle Antoine ran the general store in a small Quebec mining town a few years back.
00:21 Grumpy, lovable, he lived on gin and thrived on people. But when it came to the dead, he had to
00:30 admit he was helpless. Man-made mountains of asbestos dust. This is where Benoit grew up.
00:45 One Christmas Eve, he found out a lot about life. Love.
00:52 Sex.
01:13 Violence. Sacrilege. Death. Rebellion.
01:36 This was a time when people wrestled with life. And many dreams were broken.
01:49 With Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Hélène Loisel, Lionel Villeneuve,
02:01 Monique Mercure, Linne Champagne, Jacques Gagnon, and many others. Directed by Claude Jutras.
02:14 A great Quebec film, funny yet sad. A bittersweet, achingly beautiful recollection of people,
02:27 moments, and feelings everyone has shared.
02:31 [Music]
02:38 [Music]
02:40 [Music]