Straight for the Heart (1988)
- Original title
- À corps perdu
- Directed by
- Léa Pool
- Genre
- drama film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Switzerland, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rating
- 4.7 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A photojournalist returns from a work trip to Montreal and discovers his three-way relationship has fallen apart. The film follows his emotional struggle to make sense of the breakup.
melancholicintrospectiveslow-burnemotionalintimatebittersweetreflectivetense
What happens
Straight for the Heart (French: À corps perdu) is a 1988 Canadian-Swiss French-language drama film directed by Léa Pool and written by Pool and Marcel Beaulieu. Adapted from Yves Navarre’s novel Kurwenal, the film follows a Montreal photojournalist who, on returning from a foreign assignment, finds that his ménage à trois relationship has ended. It won Best Dramatic Feature at the 1988 Atlantic Film Festival and was selected for competition at Venice and Chicago. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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