Underplayed Gems

Just a Game (1983)

Just a Game poster
Original title
Rien qu'un jeu
Directed by
Brigitte Sauriol
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A married father is having a sexual relationship with his daughters. His wife is unhappy in their marriage and resents the girls so she pretends not to know what is happening.

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What happens

Just a Game (French: Rien qu'un jeu) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Brigitte Sauriol and released in 1983. An examination of incest, the film stars Raymond Cloutier as André, a married father who is committing incest with his daughters, and Marie Tifo as Mychèle, his unhappily married wife whose resentment of their daughters has led her to turn a blind eye to her husband's activities. The film premiered at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, and had its Canadian theatrical premiere in October 1983. The film faced some controversy in early 1984, when the Ontario Censor Board refused to permit it to be screened in Ontario unless the two scenes that most visibly depicted the incest were cut, even though Sauriol had carefully shot them to prevent them from being seen as sexually graphic. The film received three Genie Award nominations at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984, for Best Director (Sauriol), Best Actress (Tifo) and Best Sound Editing (Marcel Pothier). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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