Six working-class siblings, one saint's fractured soul — Canadian cinema's hidden religious fever dream.
The six members of the working-class Bessette family each mimic a certain stage of the life of the iconic Brother André and are an incarnation of his values and characteristics.
Direction
Leduc's patient, observational gaze treats factory floors like sacred spaces.
Writing
Structural conceit that never explains itself — you surrender or you don't.
Director
Jacques Leduc
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during Quebec's Quiet Revolution, the film quietly mourns a vanishing Catholic working-class identity while pretending to celebrate it.
Claude Jutra's cameo as the doctor was shot in one afternoon; he reportedly never saw the finished film.
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