The Heart Exposed (1986)
- Original title
- Le coeur découvert
- Directed by
- Jean-Yves Laforce
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rating
- 3.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A gay man falls in love with a father who has a young son. They navigate their age difference and the challenges of blending their lives together.
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What happens
The Heart Exposed (French: Le Cœur découvert) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Yves Laforce and released in 1987. Written by Michel Tremblay as an adaptation of his own novel The Heart Laid Bare (Le Cœur découvert), the film centres on the relationship between Jean-Marc (Gilles Renaud) and Mathieu (Michel Poirier), two gay men who meet and fall in love despite a ten-year age difference and the complication that Mathieu is the father of a five-year-old son. The film's cast also includes Olivier Chasse, Louisette Dussault, Amulette Garneau, Louise Rinfret, Pierre Houle and Robert Lalonde. The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1987, but was distributed primarily as a television film broadcast by Télévision de Radio-Canada in November. It was later screened at the Frameline Film Festival in 1989, where it won the Audience Award. Thomas Waugh, writing for Cinema Canada, stated that "It is a fine pleasure to see this warmhearted little gem, not only because of positive representation of gays in this year when everyone's gushing about Night Zoo, a violent misogynist derivative film that exults in queer-baiting and queer-smashing, but because one of our finest writers has made another all-too-rare visit to the screen." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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