La terre à boire (1964)

Directed by

Jean-Paul Bernier

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist falls in love with a younger art student. Their romance leads to his accidental death.

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What happens

The Earth to Drink (French: La Terre à boire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Paul Bernier and released in 1964. The film centres on a romance between Patrick (Patrick Straram), a journalist, and Barbara (Geneviève Bujold), a younger art student who ultimately causes Patrick's accidental death. It had a budget of $65,000 and was the first Quebec film to be privately financed. It had difficulties with local censors, reportedly because of a sex scene that was deemed "too intense". The film was not positively reviewed by critics. It became the only film Bernier ever directed, although most of its cast went on to build longer sustained careers in Quebec and international film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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