Over My Head (1964)

Original title

Jusqu'au cou

Directed by

Denis Héroux

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A university student gets involved with a fellow student. He later finds out she is also having an affair with his father, who is a professor at the same school. Made as a student film, it captures political debates about Quebec separatism.

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What happens

Over My Head (French: Jusqu'au cou, lit. "Up to the Neck") is a Canadian drama film, directed by Denis Héroux and released in 1964. The film stars Raymond Levasseur as Raymond Cardinal, a university student who begins a relationship with fellow student Édith (Édith de Villers), only to set off a chain of complications when he discovers that she is also having an affair with his father François (Guy Dufresne), a professor at the same institution. It was made as a student film while Héroux was in film studies at the Université de Montréal, and never received widespread commercial distribution beyond screenings at the university; however, the film was later noted for having documentary value, as its scenes include brief appearances by Pierre Bourgault, André D'Allemagne, Pierre Trudeau and Gérard Pelletier as themselves conducting political debates on Quebec separatism at the university, and a performance by Bernard Landry in a small role as a Front de libération du Québec terrorist. In 2010, it was included in a retrospective screening series at the Cinémathèque québécoise devoted to films of the Quiet Revolution. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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