Question de Vie (1971)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Melodrama  |   Run Time - 68 min.  |   Countries - Canada  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain

This short, bleak French-language drama is the first film by Canadian director Andre Theberge. The story concerns a young woman saddled with too many concerns and not enough means. She has been ill and has been given the job of sewing shirts as a means of recovery as well as a livelihood. Abandoned by her husband, she has three very young children to raise, and the combination of fatigue, worry, and just plain despair slowly send her over the brink.

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abandonment, craziness, crisis, desperation, disease, family, fatigue, poverty