The True Nature of Bernadette (1972)

6.1/10 • 96 min • Drama Comedy Drama

Overview

Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. That's just what she does after carefully leaving her wedding ring where her affluent husband, a lawyer, can see it. She has bought a farm, complete with a run-down farmhouse and a live-in cranky old man. Soon, because of the wonderful effects that her sympathy and her outsider's perspective have, her neighbors perceive great improvements in their lives. They attribute these changes to something miraculous (perhaps taking a cue from her name), and hordes of needy people descend on her farm.

Cast

Micheline Lanctôt

Bernadette

Donald Pilon

Thomas

Reynald Bouchard

Rock

Robert Rivard

Felicien, le maire

Willie Lamothe

Antoine, le postier

Maurice Beaupré

Octave

Ernest Guimond

Moise

Julien Lippé

Auguste

Yves Allaire

St-Marc

Jean-Marie Lemieux

Lamothe, Agronome (uncredited)

Paul Gauthier

Déménageur (uncredited)

Reine France

(uncredited)

Robert Desroches

Agriculteur (uncredited)

Angèle Coutu

(uncredited)

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