Mon Oncle Antoine
(1971)
A slice of life, death, and puppy love in the Great White Francophone North. Jos, who seems at the start to be the focus of the story, instead simply puts it in motion with his seasonal job change, tiring of the local asbestos mine and heading to high ground and the lumber camps; when he tires of that and returns home, he closes the bittersweet narrative circle.
Jacques Gagnon and Lyne Champagne are heartbreakingly beautiful as the awkward, uncertain young not-quite-lovers Benoit and Carmen. This was essentially the entire film career for each,
which just goes to show you that Canada is a stranger place than we know.
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