Dust from Underground (1968)

Original title

Poussière sur la ville

Directed by

Arthur Lamothe

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman named Madeleine starts an affair because her husband Alain is always at work and ignoring her. The story takes place in a mining town in Quebec.

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What happens

Dust from Underground (French: Poussière sur la ville) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Arthur Lamothe and released in 1968. Adapted from the novel by André Langevin, the film stars Michelle Rossignol as Madeleine Dubois, a woman who begins to have an extramarital affair when her husband Alain (Guy Sanche) is too busy at work to devote any time and attention to their relationship. The cast also included Henri Norbert, Nicole Filion, Gilles Pelletier, Nicolas Doclin, Roland Chenail, Victor Désy, Paul Guèvremont, Pierre Dupuis, Rose-Rey Duzil, Réjeanne Desrameaux and Louisette Dussault. The film was shot in Thetford Mines, Quebec, in 1965, but was not released theatrically until 1968. In addition to screening commercially in Quebec, the film was screened at the 18th Berlin Film Festival in 1968 as part of Young Canadian Film, a lineup of films by emerging Canadian filmmakers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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