My Friend Pierrette (1969)

Original title

Mon amie Pierrette

Directed by

Jean Pierre Lefebvre

Genre

drama, romance

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 09m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young couple takes their first vacation together at a family cottage. Their getaway is disrupted when an artist befriends them and creates tension between the two.

lightheartedromanticintimatebittersweetrelaxedslow-burnintrospective

What happens

My Friend Pierrette (French: Mon amie Pierrette) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and released in 1969. The film stars Yves Marchand and Francine Mathieu as Yves and Pierrette, a young couple who are spending their first vacation together at a family cottage when they meet Raoul (Raôul Duguay), an artist who comes between them. The film opened theatrically in Quebec in July 1969, and was later screened in the Directors Fortnight program at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. The film was included in Jean Pierre Lefebvre: Vidéaste, a retrospective program of Lefebvre's films at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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