An unhappy married woman has an affair with a violent criminal. She gets pregnant with his baby, but he gets arrested and goes to prison. Now what?
Acting
Jennifer Dale's trapped-animal energy carries every scene.
Direction
Spry's TV roots show—tight, unromantic, claustrophobic.
Director
Robin Spry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Anne Hébert's novel, this adapts Quebec's literary obsession with female suffering and rural violence.
Dale and Arcand were real-life partners, lending their toxic screen chemistry uncomfortable documentary energy.
CA
