The Torrent

It’s 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. He’ll enter the priesthood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. But 17-year-old François is dead set against joining the seminary. Enraged, Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf. After his mother’s death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu peddler.

Director: Simon Lavoie

Cast: Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon, Laurence Leboeuf, Dominique Quesnel, Anthony Therrien, Marco Bacon, Roger Blay, Normand Canac-Marquis, Aubert Pallascio

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.