The queerest Canadian film of the 60s that nobody saw coming.
A humanity student, Lucien is active in various extracurricular activities. Recognized by his peers, he represents other students in their challenge of college rules and the settlement of the fate of an incompetent professor. He ends up being thrown out of the school. After his mother's death, even though he dates Lise, a young woman with whom he does acting, he has to resist the advances of a homosexual whose death he will accidentally cause.
Acting
Lucien Hamelin's nervous energy masks volcanic repression.
Direction
Patry's documentary roots make fiction feel uncomfortably real.
Director
Pierre Patry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the earliest Canadian films to center queer themes, made five years before Trudeau decriminalized homosexuality.
Director Pierre Patry was only 24; this was his thesis film that accidentally became a cult artifact.
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